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SMHV in HyperV CSV Environment backup problems

ademuynck — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:32:59 GMT

Hi everybody,

I use SMHV 1.0.1.0 with SDW 6.4 in HyperV CSV cluster, and have many problems of backup.

SMHV reports tell me SnapDirve is not licensed on storage system, and have some error of Vss Requestor.

I try ton uninstall completely SMHV and SDW, and reinstall it installing first SDW then SMHV - No changes.

All of my virtual machines running Windows 2008R2, or Windows 2003 R2, or RedHat Enterprise...

Since installation backup never works correctly.

I have try to restart SDW before backup, no changes ...

So i have no idea ... So i need your help.

Re: SMHV in HyperV CSV Environment backup problems

maliu — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:08:55 GMT

Hi,

Have a look at this kb.

https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?page=content&id=2015306&actp=LIST_RECENT&viewlocale=en_US&searchid=1331301143715

https://communities.netapp.com/thread/8757

You need to install

SnapDrive for Windows on all hosts before installing SnapManager for Hyper-V.

If the hosts are members of a cluster, all nodes in the cluster require the installation of SnapDrive for

Windows.

When SnapManager for Hyper-V starts it communicates with SnapDrive for Windows to get the list

of all virtual machines running on a host. If SnapDrive for Windows is not installed on the host, this

API fails and the SnapManager for Hyper-V internal cache does not update with the virtual machine

information.

You might receive the following message:

Error :SnapManager for Hyper-V is not licensed on the host or in the Storage

System, backup is aborted:

Re: SMHV in HyperV CSV Environment backup problems

ademuynck — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:16:29 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for your answer.

Snapdrive for Windows is well installed on each node of my hyperV cluster.

My hyperv cluster is constitued of 4 nodes, and each node have SDW 6.4 installed.

On each node i have also installed SMHV... always the same problem !

Re: SMHV in HyperV CSV Environment backup problems

tkilchenmann — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:44:06 GMT

Hi ademuynck,

There is SDW 6.4P1 available. It solved some other problems for us. It might be worth trying. There are also patches for SMHV available.

Re: SMHV in HyperV CSV Environment backup problems

ademuynck — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:44:34 GMT

Hi,

I was connecting to netapp now portal, and try to download SDW 6.4P1 and patches for SMHV, but i can't see any new version of SDW or patches for SMHV ...

Could you give me link where to download this ?

Thanks a lot.

Re: SMHV in HyperV CSV Environment backup problems

watan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 03:22:56 GMT

Here is the SDW 6.4P1 download link. http://support.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/snapdrive_win/6.4P1/

You should also open a ticket with NGS to have them take a look at the logs.

Re: SMHV in HyperV CSV Environment backup problems

tkilchenmann — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:54:02 GMT

Downloading patch level is a special thing with NetApp. You need to go "Software Downloads". At the last line you can select software products. At the input field you need to fill in the version you are looking for. To check if there is a patch for an software product you need to "try and error".

Timo

Re: SMHV in HyperV CSV Environment backup problems

ademuynck — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:24:21 GMT

Hi,

Thanks a lot for yours answers. I will try to upgrade version of SDW and SMHV and will be back at the end of the day for give back...

thanks

Re: SMHV in HyperV CSV Environment backup problems

shrao — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:29:39 GMT

Please make sure you select per storage in the license page while upgrading.

Cheers,

Santhosh

Re: SMHV in HyperV CSV Environment backup problems

ademuynck — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:10:35 GMT

Hi everybody,

Ok so i have upgrade SDW to 6.4P1 and SMHV to 1.0.2.0. Try to backup my cluster and still have an error :

Backup task failed to succeed. An error occured while renaming snapshots after backup operation

Any idea ?

Thanks a lot !

Re: SMHV in HyperV CSV Environment backup problems

michael_trutmann — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:47:10 GMT

hi there

have a similar problem here:

SnapDrive reports me when creating a Backup in SMHV the following error:

Error :SnapManager for Hyper-V is not licensed on the host or in the Storage System, backup is aborted

License Typ from Snapmanager is Storage and there is a license added.

First I installed SnapDrive 6.4.0.5234 and then SMHV.

Please Help, i'd like to solve that.

Thanks,

michael

Re: SMHV in HyperV CSV Environment backup problems

michael_trutmann — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:22:14 GMT

Hi,

I solved the problem with Help of Netapp Support.

SnapDrive causes the problem because wrong communication with filer.

First of all check all your dns entries from your filer interfaces (+ reverse Lookup)

after you checked that add an Registry Entry into your server where SnapDrive is installed:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SWSvc\Parameters\PreferredFilerIPAddresses]

<filer_name>=<ip_address>

Attention: you have to add the public Interface IP Address from your filer,l not the dedicated iSCSI IP Address.

detailed information: https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?page=content&id=1010756

gd luck