PowerProtect Data Manager 19.15 Kubernetes User Guide

About asset sources, assets, and storage

In PowerProtect Data Manager, assets are the basic units that PowerProtect Data Manager protects. Asset sources are the mechanism that PowerProtect Data Manager uses to manage assets and communicate with the protection storage where backup copies of the assets are stored.

PowerProtect Data Manager supports PowerProtect DD Management Center (DDMC) as the storage and programmatic interface for controlling protection storage systems.

Supported asset sources

Asset sources can be a vCenter server, Kubernetes cluster, Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance or share, application host, storage array, or Cloud Snapshot Manager tenant. Assets can be virtual machines, Kubernetes namespaces and persistent volume claims (PVCs), NAS appliance or share assets,Microsoft Exchange Server databases, Microsoft SQL Server databases, Oracle databases, SAP HANA databases, file systems, or PowerStore block volumes.

Supported asset languages

PowerProtect Data Manager supports the protection of data hosted on operating systems in multiple languages. For more information, see the E-Lab Navigator.

Prerequisite to adding an asset source

Before you can add an asset source, you must enable the source within the PowerProtect Data Manager user interface.

In the Assets window, you can export asset records by using the Export All functionality.

IPv6 information not displayed by the Asset Sources window

The Asset Sources window does not display IPv6 information. If an asset only uses IPv6, the IPV4 column displays a blank entry. To select an IPv6-only asset, refer to the Name column.

Maximum supported number of characters in an asset or storage name is 25

PowerProtect Data Manager does not support more than 25 characters in an asset or storage name.

CAUTION:If this maximum is exceeded, protection policy configuration fails.