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 .vdfs/snapshot/ directory and snapshot name and then the details are sent to NetBackup.

Also the host access configuration are added as read-only on a particular file share.

Snapshot export path as follows:

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.