Supported Snapshot Manager for Data Center Operation on VMware vSAN cluster
You can perform the following Snapshot Manager for Data Center operations supported on the VMware vSAN cluster:
Table: Snapshot Manager for Data Center operations on the VMware vSAN cluster
Snapshot Manager for Data Center operations | Description |
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Discover assets | Snapshot Manager for Data Center discovers all VMware vSAN clusters, NFS, and SMB file shares and the snapshots with its metadata. |
Create snapshot | To create a snapshot, Snapshot Manager for Data Center initiates a POST REST API method with the required information and snapshot name. The API returns the details of the snapshot. All these snapshots are at a file share level. A snapshot created with the following naming convention: NB<unique_21digit_number> |
Delete snapshot | To delete a file share snapshot, Snapshot Manager for Data Center initiates a DELETE Rest API call with the required snapshot details. Snapshot Manager for Data Center confirms that the snapshot is deleted successfully on the vSAN cluster. |
Restore snapshot | Snapshot Manager for Data Center does not support file share-level PIT restore operations on the vSAN cluster. Instead, you can perform a normal restore at a specified location. |
Export snapshot | Snapshot Manager for Data Centersupports export operation using the NFS and SMB protocol. When a snapshot export operation is initiated based on NFS or SMB share export path is created using Also the host access configuration are added as read-only on a particular file share. Snapshot export path as follows:
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Deport snapshot | When a snapshot deport operation is initiated,Snapshot Manager for Data Center makes a PUT REST API call to the vSAN cluster to remove host access configurations entry that was added during the export operation. |