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JonHunt
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9 years ago
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Are NSS VIP (Intelligent polices) supported

How does NSS work with Intelligent policies?

 

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    NSS uses VIP policies to protect VMWare infrastructure. This applies to both vCenter and vCloud environments.

    For vCloud environments, VIP policies are the only option, for vCenter ones, non-VIP policies can be used but NSS uses VIP only.

    NSS portal uses VIP policies for VMWare. For other policies e.g. windows or standard, there is no concept of intelligence so machines are just added as clients to policies.

    NetBackup has other policy types that have an intelligent version (SQL Server, Oracle, HyperV) but NSS does not support them

    NSS supports the script based version of the above policies.

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    NSS uses VIP policies to protect VMWare infrastructure. This applies to both vCenter and vCloud environments.

    For vCloud environments, VIP policies are the only option, for vCenter ones, non-VIP policies can be used but NSS uses VIP only.

    NSS portal uses VIP policies for VMWare. For other policies e.g. windows or standard, there is no concept of intelligence so machines are just added as clients to policies.

    NetBackup has other policy types that have an intelligent version (SQL Server, Oracle, HyperV) but NSS does not support them

    NSS supports the script based version of the above policies.

    • AlChie's avatar
      AlChie
      Level 4

      Greetings Jon!

      Are there any changes regarding MSSQL/Oracle VIP integration with NSS?

      Do you have these enhancements planned in future roadmaps?

      • JonHunt's avatar
        JonHunt
        Level 5

        No, there aren't any changes regarding MSSQL/Oracle VIP policies on the roadmap at the moment.

        Unless the NBU API introduces support, there is no way to do it based on existing interfaces.

        FYI , some customers have been doing some clever stuff with the Script based polices like deploying the script (via Powershell) when the request to backup the database is invoked, although restore is still a manual process.