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The Data Manager Appliance for NAS protection supports centralized backup and recovery for NAS assets. Dynamic NAS protection provides a non-NDMP, crawl- and backup-based solution by leveraging the NAS Protection Engine internally using Filesystem Agents (FSA) File based-backup (FBB) technology. The NAS Protection Engine is deployed on the selected VMware vCenter, and the Data Manager Appliance registers the Protection Engine. For NAS protection, the Data Manager Appliance supports multi-stream backup and restore. With centralized support, the Data Manager Appliance controls and manages end to end backup and recovery operations.
NAS protection engine supports multiple Virtual Local Area Network (multi-VLAN) for NAS workloads. This support includes separate VLANs for management and data transfer based on the VLANs assigned to different tenants/BU.
From Data Manager Appliance version 5.13.0.0, network support is extended to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) along with dual stack, that is, the ability to run IPv4 and IPv6 in parallel.
The Data Manager Appliance protects NAS assets in two ways:
Shares on the supported Dell Technologies appliances (as listed above) are automatically detected, and NFS and CIFS shares from other NAS platforms can be manually added. NAS protection backs up and recovers ACLs and extended attributes for NFSv4 and CIFS/SMB shares. Data Manager Appliance supports NFS versions 4.1 and 4.2 starting with Data Manager Appliance version 5.16 and later.
Note: Supported hardware or software platforms may be updated in subsequent releases. See the support matrix at https://elabnavigator.dell.com/eln/modernHomeDataProtection for the latest product information.