You can develop custom plug-ins for applications that you use and then use SnapCenter to backup, restore, or clone these applications. Like other SnapCenter plug-ins, your custom plug-ins act as host-side components of the NetApp SnapCenter Software, enabling application-aware data protection and management of resources.
NetApp provides MySQL and DB2 custom plug-ins with SnapCenter Software 2.0 and later and MongoDB custom plug-in from 3.0 and later. These plug-ins can be downloaded from the NetApp Storage Automation Store.
You can create your own custom plug-ins by referring to the Developer's Guide for Creating Custom Plug-ins.
The Data Protection Guide for your plug-in has information about data protection operations.
The SnapCenter concepts documentation has information about the SnapCenter architecture, features, and benefits.