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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.13 Network-Attached Storage User Guide

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Onboarding and discovering PowerScale configured with SmartConnect and multiple access zones

For NAS, PowerProtect Data Manager supports multiple access zone and SmartConnect zone names with PowerScale. These zone name allows you to protect PowerScale NAS assets across all zones and use the SmartConnect zone names for backup and recovery.

SmartConnect acts as a DNS delegation server to return IP addresses for SmartConnect zones, generally for load-balancing connections to the PowerScale cluster. See the Isilon OneFS Web Administration Guide for more information about SmartConnect and its configuration detail.

From 19.12, PowerProtect Data Manager discovers and onboards shares or exports from all the access zones in the PowerScale appliance.

PowerScale appliance added as asset source

You can add PowerScale appliance with the management/node IP. See Add a NAS appliance for more information. In PowerProtect Data Manager 19.11 and earlier, only system zone shares were discovered. In PowerProtect Data Manager 19.12 or later, shares and exports from both system and nonsystem access zones are discovered and onboarded to the Assets page.
NOTE:
  • You can identify whether the zone is a system or a nonsystem zone from the Zone/Server Name/IP column on the NAS tab of the Infrastructure > Assets page.
  • After making any configuration changes in PowerScale or NAS appliances, run the discovery in PowerProtect Data Manager to view the recent status of an asset.
  • Along with the onboarded asset source entries, the entries that are added in the previous releases are also listed on the Asset Source page. In such cases, you can delete the duplicate asset source entries.

PowerScale shares added as asset source

PowerScale shares can be added as generic asset sources in PowerProtect Data Manager. See Add a NAS share for more information. You can add the generic shares with management node IP (system zone shares or exports), zone IP, or SmartConnect zone name. In PowerProtect Data Manager 19.12 or later, existing shares that are added with the management node IP remain generic PowerScale shares and are not onboarded as assets. However, the shares that are added with zone IP or SmartConnect zone name are onboarded seamlessly.
NOTE:
  • You can view zone names of discovered NAS assets under the Zone/Server Name/IP column on the NAS tab of the Infrastructure > Assets page.
  • You can add shares with SmartConnect zone name regardless of its type NFS or CIFS.
  • If you want to add a system zone share as a generic asset source from PowerScale/Isilon, add those with the management IP/node IP. Else, the mount operation for that share will fail.

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