SnapCenter Plug-in for IBM Db2 features
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SnapCenter integrates with the plug-in application and with NetApp technologies on the storage system. To work with the Plug-in for IBM Db2 Database, you use the SnapCenter graphical user interface.
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Unified graphical user interface
The SnapCenter interface provides standardization and consistency across plug-ins and environments. The SnapCenter interface enables you to complete consistent backup, restore, and clone operations across plug-ins, use centralized reporting, use at-a-glance dashboard views, set up role-based access control (RBAC), and monitor jobs across all plug-ins.
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Automated central administration
You can schedule backup operations, configure policy-based backup retention, and perform restore operations. You can also proactively monitor your environment by configuring SnapCenter to send email alerts.
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Nondisruptive NetApp snapshot copy technology
SnapCenter uses NetApp snapshot technology with the Plug-in for IBM Db2 Database to back up resources.
Using the Plug-in for IBM Db2 also offers the following benefits:
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Support for backup, restore, and clone workflows
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RBAC-supported security and centralized role delegation
You can also set the credentials so that the authorized SnapCenter users have application-level permissions.
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Creation of space-efficient and point-in-time copies of resources for testing or data extraction by using NetApp FlexClone technology
A FlexClone license is required on the storage system where you want to create the clone.
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Support for the consistency group (CG) snapshot feature of ONTAP as part of creating backups.
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Capability to run multiple backups simultaneously across multiple resource hosts
In a single operation, snapshots are consolidated when resources in a single host share the same volume.
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Capability to create snapshots using external commands.
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Support for Linux LVM on XFS file system.