topic Re: snapcenter 4.1 nfs backup vmware, NON-Supported entity in Data Protection

snapcenter 4.1 nfs backup vmware, NON-Supported entity

ousturali — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:38:20 GMT

Hi to all

for a customer demo, i prepared an snapcenter environment with netapp simulator and a nested ESX .And installed snapcenter , registered the vsphere plugin for virtual center.

the test vms running on NFS datastore, and i can create a resourse group for this datastore and can take backups and can restore the vms in this datastore

But when it comes to backup invidiual vms backup with different resource group, i can create the needed resource group but when i run the backup, it gives the following error

"Activity 'Discovering Resources' failed with error: The Resource Group contains a non-supported entity type for the backup.

"ı couldnot find any clue how to solve this,also on the netapp filer ,the following event generated"app.log.err: SNAPCENT: SnapCenter Software 4.1.1.2827: (1002) Error: Job [114] Activity [Discovering Resources] failed with error: The Resource Group contains a non-supported entity type for the backup."Any ideas???

Re: snapcenter 4.1 nfs backup vmware, NON-Supported entity

pranjith — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 04:53:59 GMT

Can you check the VM have any CD/DVD device attached from local datastores?

Re: snapcenter 4.1 nfs backup vmware, NON-Supported entity

NTAp-AVS — Mon, 06 May 2019 15:12:39 GMT

Do any of those VMS data on non-netapp storage?

Re: snapcenter 4.1 nfs backup vmware, NON-Supported entity

ousturali — Tue, 21 May 2019 08:18:05 GMT

Yes ,i first checked it ,but it isnt connected

Re: snapcenter 4.1 nfs backup vmware, NON-Supported entity

ousturali — Tue, 21 May 2019 08:18:42 GMT

NO, all vms on netapp storage