Hi Dante! Today we got the same warning. Did you find anyting about this? There is also a older thread about this (https://forums.netapp.com/thread/19352). Perhaps, we should communicate all on the same thread. Thank you Rainer ... View more

Hi! Also last year, we have moved our hole VMware infrastructur to NFS and we use qtrees for the datastores. And we use currently at a minimum of 2 qtrees per volume. And in order to can spread the LAN io over both network cards, we use also 2 netmasks within our storage lan. So we mount the first datastore (qtree) over the first netmask and the second one over the other netmask (See NetApp and VMware bestpractice guide tr-3749). With VMware it works very fine. And we also use FQDN for mounting the datastores. But we have also added this FQDN in the hosts of each ESX host and on the filer. So on the one hand, it is better readable from where the datastore is coming and on the other hand it also works when there are some troubles with DNS. With this configuration we use also the smvi part of the svc. Over the gui - vCenter plugin - we can make backups for single VMs and also for single datastores. But it is not possible to make one backup with more datastores. About the 2 netmasks, SMVI does not recognize that this datastores are on the same volume and so, it tries to make to separate snapshots and this failes. I tried it with to datastores within one volume over 1 netmask and this is possible. But interesting is, that the CLI can also make a backup with our configuration (2 netmask). Currently we are waiting for a clear roadmap for what NetApp will do in the next version with qtree support. But until now it sounds, that they will not really full support several qtrees with more then one netmask. Regards Rainer ... View more

I have a question about backup of VMs with iSCSI luns. I have a windows 2003 VM with 3 vmdk disk and 10 iSCSI disk mapped over snapdrive for windows. All related volumes - datastore, volume for iSCSI luns - are placed in a vfiler. When I now make a backup with the svc the tool make an snapshot of all volumes containing iSCSI luns and present this luns to the server. But for what? The svc says, that the backup was successfully created, but the svc has mapped all 10 luns to the server but only unmapped 4 luns. That means currently I have mapped 6 luns of the created snapshot to the server. After all when I delete the backup on the svc it will only delete the snapshot of the datastore volume and from the svc database. But the snapshots of the iscsi volumes and the volume clones will reside on the filer an. And also the mapping to the server. Have anybode else this phenomenon? Thanks for your response. Rainer ... View more

I have opened a case for this. I will post the result here. ... View more

I could be that this error messages (com.netapp.smvi.security.authentication.vsphere.VSphereAuthenticator - Failed to authenticate vSphere sessionId) has nothing todo with the backup jobs. Because now I have filterd out this messages and this messages happens every 30 minutes excatly each hour and half an hour. And this every time also at a time where no actions occurs with the smvi. ... View more

That strange ... Also between 0 and 1 am in the morning i make in summary 10 Backups with smvi.bat (CLI). And within this time, there are some messages in the event log. Now I restored one VM from one of this backups and it works fine. But today at 11:30 I have also this error message in the event log but nobody did anything at this time. We had an backup with the CLI but it was ready at 11:27. And my restore was on 11:52. ... View more

Hi Amrita! Thanks for your fast response. Yes, it seems, that this error messages only occure with CLI. Regards Rainer ... View more

Hi Together! Every night I create backups with the CLI "smvi.bat backup create -id NSC-OA-01 -id NSC-OA-02 -backup-name DMS_daily". The backup works fine but in the event log some times i received a similar message like stefan. Thanks for your helps. Rainer 985801399 [btpool0-178] ERROR com.netapp.smvi.security.authentication.vsphere.VSphereAuthenticator - Failed to authenticate vSphere sessionId %s com.vmware.vim.InvalidLoginFaultMsg    at com.netapp.smvi.VimClient.createUserSession(VimClient.java:195)    at com.netapp.smvi.VimClient.validateLogin(VimClient.java:131)    at com.netapp.smvi.VimClient.<init>(VimClient.java:74)    at com.netapp.smvi.VimClientFactory.getVimClient(VimClientFactory.java:105)    at com.netapp.smvi.security.authentication.vsphere.VSphereAuthenticator.isValidSession(VSphereAuthenticator.java:44)    at com.netapp.smvi.security.authentication.handler.VSphereAuthenticationHandler.authenticate(VSphereAuthenticationHandler.java:27)    at com.netapp.smvi.security.authentication.AuthenticationChainManager.authenticate(AuthenticationChainManager.java:39)    at com.netapp.smvi.security.PasswordHandler.handle(PasswordHandler.java:75)    at org.apache.ws.security.processor.UsernameTokenProcessor.handleUsernameToken(UsernameTokenProcessor.java:160)    at org.apache.ws.security.processor.UsernameTokenProcessor.handleToken(UsernameTokenProcessor.java:56)    at org.apache.ws.security.WSSecurityEngine.processSecurityHeader(WSSecurityEngine.java:326)    at org.apache.ws.security.WSSecurityEngine.processSecurityHeader(WSSecurityEngine.java:243)    at org.apache.cxf.ws.security.wss4j.WSS4JInInterceptor.handleMessage(WSS4JInInterceptor.java:179)    at org.apache.cxf.ws.security.wss4j.WSS4JInInterceptor.handleMessage(WSS4JInInterceptor.java:66)    at org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:236)    at org.apache.cxf.transport.ChainInitiationObserver.onMessage(ChainInitiationObserver.java:104)    at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.ServletDestination.invoke(ServletDestination.java:99)    at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.ServletController.invokeDestination(ServletController.java:350)    at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.ServletController.invoke(ServletController.java:182)    at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.AbstractCXFServlet.invoke(AbstractCXFServlet.java:163)    at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.AbstractCXFServlet.doPost(AbstractCXFServlet.java:141)    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:487)    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:362)    at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181)    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:726)    at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:405)    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:206)    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114)    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)    at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:324)    at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:505)    at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(HttpConnection.java:842)    at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:648)    at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:205)    at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:380)    at org.mortbay.jetty.bio.SocketConnector$Connection.run(SocketConnector.java:228)    at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SslSocketConnector$SslConnection.run(SslSocketConnector.java:620)    at org.mortbay.thread.BoundedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(BoundedThreadPool.java:450) ... View more

Hi Amritad! You use the line if %BACKUP_PHASE% == POST_BACKUP goto doSnapVault in you script. Means that, that it is also possible to start scripts befor the backup (PRE scripts)? I cannot find a documentation about the scripts for SMVI (SVC 2.0). Which parameters are possible and so on. Have you some docu? Thanks Rainer ... View more

We use SVC 2.0.1 with VMware vCenter Server 4.1.0. Our VMware infrastructure is running on NFS. The integration of SMVI to VMware vCenter Server is a gread idea. And the product works almost very fine. But I have some troubles and also requests for this products. My problemes are: 1. We have within one volume always two datastores. With the CLI it is possible to make backups. But it is not possible with the GUI (vCenter plugin). I have opened a call for this but the support works very slow on this case. 2. The URL in the backup status mail is not correct. The URL looks like https://[fe80:0:0:0:0:5efe:a50:244%12]:8043/smvi/logViewer?id=backup_TIER3-T02_NSC-TIER2-09_20110101192501. When I replace the strange domain ([fe80:0:0:0:0:5efe:a50:244%12]) with the server name where svc is installed, it works. some requests: a. All lists of servers, datastores or datacenters within the wizards (backup, restore) are NOT sorted. So it is not easy to find the right item. b. It would be fine, when the esx server lists are grouped to DRS Clusters and datacenters like in the vCenter Server. Have anyone else issues like this? Thanks Rainer ... View more