The Core integrates with the snapshot capabilities of the storage array and enables you to configure application-consistent snapshots through the SteelFusion Core Management Console.
By bringing backups back to the data center, the Core eliminates the requirement and infrastructure of running backups at the remote branches. Data from the branch is always synced back to the data center so you can schedule VADP backups (application consistent) of the branch VMs. Once the snapshot reaches the data center, the Core triggers the application-consistent snapshot on the supported array and automatically mounts the snapshot to a proxy host. The backup software on the storage array can then perform the backups through the proxy host in the data center.
If you have configured your data centers for replication, you must schedule snapshots on the current primary data center. Keep in mind that snapshots taken on one data center are only present on that particular data center, and snapshots will not work after failover if the snapshot configuration is not present on the failover data center. For more information about replication, see
Configuring Replication.