PowerProtect Data Manager 19.17 Kubernetes User Guide

About asset sources, assets, and storage in PowerProtect Data Manager

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 a protection storage system.

Supported asset sources

Available asset sources in PowerProtect Data Manager include:

vCenter server
Kubernetes cluster
Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance or share
Application host (Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, File System)
PowerStore or PowerMax
Cloud Snapshot Manager tenant

Assets in PowerProtect Data Manager can be the following:

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
PowerStore or PowerMax block volumes

Supported asset languages

PowerProtect Data Manager supports the protection of data that is 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.

IPv6 information does not display 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, see the Name column.