| VSC 6.x | SCV 4.x | Comments |
Enterprise Features | | | |
Management interface through vCenter | ✅ | ✅ | All backup and recovery operations are handled through the vCenter interface. |
Centralized deployment | ⛔️ | ✅ | |
Backup metadata protection | ⛔️ | ✅ | SCV leverages the SnapCenter MySQL database to store backup metadata, allowing the database to be separately backed up and restored. |
Windows PowerShell support | ✅ | ⛔️ | – |
Rest APIs | ⛔️ | ✅ | |
Storage Deployment | | | |
SAN (VMware Virtual Machine File System [VMFS]) support | ✅ | ✅ | |
NAS (NFS) support | ✅ | ✅ | |
Advanced Virtual Machine (VM) Integration | | | |
Linked mode support | ✅ | ✅ | One instance of the SCV plug-in is required for each instance of vCenter. |
vCenter RBAC support | ✅ | ✅ | – |
Data Protection and Management | | | |
Backup VMs, VMDKs, and datastores | ✅ | ✅ | – |
Backup data center | ✅ | ⛔️ | – |
Backup Now without an existing job or resource group | ✅ | ⛔️ | . |
Policy-based backup management | ⛔️ | ✅ | SCV allows reuse of the same policy for other resource groups and saves time in defining settings such as backup frequency, copy retention, replication, and scripts. |
Data Protection and Management (continued) | | | |
SVM and cluster management LIF support | ✅ | ✅ | |
Use multiple schedules per backup job | ⛔️ | ✅ | |
Custom snapshot naming | ✅ | ✅ | |
Restore VMs or Virtual Machine Disks (VMDKs) from the primary NetApp® Snapshot™ copy | ✅ | ✅ | |
Restore VMs or VMDKs from a secondary Snapshot copy | ⛔️ | ✅ | |
Restore datastores | ✅ | ⛔️ | |
Recent snapshot | ✅ | ✅ | Suffix _recent to latest snapshot |
Restore files or folders on a guest OS | ⛔️ | ✅ | Support is on a Windows guest OS only starting with SCV 4.0 for both VMFS and NFS. |
Mount datastore from a primary Snapshot copy | ✅ | ✅ | The mount operation allows you to access files in the backup, enabling granular recovery. |
Mount datastore from a secondary Snapshot copy | ⛔️ | ✅ | |
Attach or detach a VMDK from a primary or secondary Snapshot copy | ⛔️ | ✅ | SCV allows restore of files and folders from a Windows or Linux guest OS instead of restoring the entire drive. |
Get detailed job monitoring | ⛔️ | ✅ | |
Use a detailed dashboard | ⛔️ | ✅ | SCV gives a summary of backup, restore, and mount jobs for the selected duration and the last backup status of VMs. |
Get detailed reporting | ⛔️ | ✅ | You can view and download HTML and CSV reports of backup, restore, and mount jobs and protected or unprotected VMs. |