The Plug-in for VMware vSphere integrates with vCenter and with NetApp technologies on the storage system.
- Unified graphical user interface in vCenter
- The VMware vSphere web client interface in vCenter enables you to complete consistent backup and restore operations on VMs, VMDKs, and datastores, and use centralized reporting, use at-a-glance dashboard views, set up role-based access control (RBAC), and monitor vCenter jobs.
- Automated central administration
- You can schedule backup operations, configure policy-based backup retention, and perform restore operations. You can also proactively monitor your vCenter environment by configuring SnapCenter to send email alerts.
- Nondisruptive NetApp Snapshot copy technology
- The Plug-in for VMware vSphere uses NetApp Snapshot copy technology. This enables you to back up VMs, VMDKs, and datastores in seconds and restore VMs quickly without taking a host offline. Snapshot copies consume minimal storage space.
The Plug-in for VMware vSphere also offers the following benefits:
- Support for operations that were initialized by other plug-ins for virtualized resources and support for backup, restore, attach, detach, mount, and unmount operations on VMs, VMDKs, and databases in vCenter.
- Automatically discover VMs and databases configured on vCenter
- vCenter and SnapCenter RBAC-supported security and centralized role delegation
- Support for virtualized infrastructures