Sites and providers overview

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A site is a user-defined grouping of providers that is generally based on location to help quickly identify and interact with data that is created through Copy Data Management jobs. Sites are assigned when registering providers. When creating Backup and restore jobs, sites clearly identify where your data is replicated by location. Providers are physical servers that host objects and attributes. Once a provider is registered in IBM® Storage Defender Copy Data Management, cataloging, searching, and reporting can be performed.

Supported provider types are:

  • Application servers: Supported application database types include InterSystems Caché and InterSystems IRIS (collectively referred to as InterSystems database), Oracle, SAP HANA, and SQL. Use the File System application type to register file systems for physical servers running Windows™, Linux®, and AIX®. See associated application requirements for supported storage types.
  1. IBM storage systems: Supported types include IBM Storage Virtualize.
  2. LDAP servers: Register an LDAP server to enable LDAP users to be provisioned through a group import. LDAP also supports authentication using the sAMAccountName Windows user naming attribute or an associated e-mail address. Unlike storage systems and VMware servers, LDAP servers are not cataloged.
  3. NetApp ONTAP storage systems: Supported types include NetApp ONTAP 7-Mode and Cluster-Mode.
  4. SQL and Oracle application servers: Supported storage platforms for Oracle include IBM storage systems running IBM Storage Virtualize 7.3 and later/8.1.2 and later, including IBM SAN Volume Controller, IBM Storwize®, and IBM FlashSystem® V9000 and 9100 systems. Supported SQL Server versions include SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2016 standalone and AlwaysON. Supported operating system platforms include Windows 2012R2, Windows 2016 running on vSphere VM using VMDK configuration.
  1. Pure Storage systems: Supported storage platforms include Pure Storage FlashArray.
  2. SMTP hosts: Register an SMTP server to enable email notifications from IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management. Unlike storage systems and VMware servers, SMTP servers are not cataloged.
  3. VMware servers: Supported types includes vCenter and ESX/ESXi hosts.
  4. Dell storage systems: Supported storage platforms include Dell PowerMax Storage , Dell PowerFlex Storage, and Dell PowerStore Storage.

Adding a provider requires specifying the user name and password of the provider.

Note: Users that register providers, such as storage devices, or add resources to IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management, such as jobs or customized reports, will have full access to interact with those providers or resources regardless of role-based access control restrictions. For example, if a user's permission allows them to register NetApp providers, they will also be able to view, edit, and unregister the NetApp providers that they registered, even if the necessary permissions are not assigned to them through role-based access control.