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Deleting SnapCenter Resource Group Also Deletes ALL SNAPSHOTS!

TMADOCTHOMAS — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:21:01 GMT

So the other day I was performing initial steps to decommission a NetApp cluster. We are keeping it in place for two weeks so we can restore from snapshots if needed. As part of the decommission, I of course removed SnapMirror and SnapCenter jobs. Much to my shock, removing the SnapCenter job in the vCenter plug-in (i.e. the Resource Group) removed not only the job but ALL THE SNAPSHOTS that the job had created!! It felt like I'd been hit with a virus.

Needless to say I opened a case. My second shock was to discover this is BY DESIGN:

https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/sc-plugin-vmware-vsphere/scpivs44_manage_resource_groups.html#delete-resource-groups

To me this is amazing that this is default behavior, with no way to change it as far as I can tell. I am requesting a feature request to allow a check box to override this behavior, but wanted to post it here for additional visibility. I can't imagine anyone thinking that deleting a backup job would delete the backups. I've never seen a single backup software program do that in my life, from any vendor.

Anyone from NetApp care to comment? Can this be changed?

Re: Deleting SnapCenter Resource Group Also Deletes ALL SNAPSHOTS!

paul_stejskal — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 17:22:02 GMT

Did they open a RFE/bug yet in Support? If it is an urgent/important issue the account team can also help prioritize the fix or possibly submit a fPVR for you. I would suggest both routes.

Re: Deleting SnapCenter Resource Group Also Deletes ALL SNAPSHOTS!

TMADOCTHOMAS — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 17:23:18 GMT

Hi @paul_stejskal , I'm on the line with NetApp now and he is opening a bug for this.

Re: Deleting SnapCenter Resource Group Also Deletes ALL SNAPSHOTS!

tahmad — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 07:10:14 GMT

hello @TMADOCTHOMAS ,

can you please share the bug # for future reference?

thanks

Re: Deleting SnapCenter Resource Group Also Deletes ALL SNAPSHOTS!

TMADOCTHOMAS — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 12:48:36 GMT

Hi @tahmad , it is bug ID #1410317.

Re: Deleting SnapCenter Resource Group Also Deletes ALL SNAPSHOTS!

tahmad — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 22:11:49 GMT

Thanks @TMADOCTHOMAS for your update