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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.12 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, which 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/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. Prior to 19.12, only system zone shares were discovered. After updating to 19.12, shares/exports from both system and non-system access zones will be discovered and onboarded to the Assets page.
NOTE
  • You can identify whether the zone is a system or a non-system 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/exports), zone IP or SmartConnect zone name. After updating to 19.12, the existing shares that are added with the management/node IP remain generic PowerScale shares and they will not be onboarded as assets. However, the shares that are added with zone IP or SmartConnect zone name will be 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.

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