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No Virtual Entities in VSC

klugefhgiws — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:05:08 GMT

I use Virtual Storage Console 2.0.1 in an VMware 4.1 Cluster with 4 hosts und 8 iscsi storages. When I want to create a new backup job I can't select a virtual entity. The list is empty. If I go to a vm and the netapp page, it's possible to create a backup job. How can I backup more than 1 vm in a backup job?

Re: No Virtual Entities in VSC

BrendonHiggins — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:26:06 GMT

Hi, welcome to the community

Have you installed VSC correctly, registered it with VMware (VIC) and added your filers?

Guides and how to's here

https://now.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/vsc_win/2.0.1/

Hope it helps

Bren

Re: No Virtual Entities in VSC

klugefhgiws — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:37:00 GMT

Yes, I have registered Virtual Center and the filer correctly.

Andreas

Re: No Virtual Entities in VSC

amritad — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:29:26 GMT

You can go to home view -> netapp-> backup and recovery tab. Do you observe the same behavior there?

REgards

Amrita

Re: No Virtual Entities in VSC

antolienhetzel — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:23:50 GMT

Hello,

I have the same problem, did you find a solution ?

Regards,

Antolien

Re: No Virtual Entities in VSC

antolienhetzel — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:01:36 GMT

I finally found the solution, with VSC CLI, when i make "smvi discover datastores"

There was an error for a target. I then checked the paths and there was a problem with an empty iqn.

I restart the scan for vmfs and datastore on vSphere, and after all is ok

Regards,

Antolien

Re: No Virtual Entities in VSC

MOSKOWITZ — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:29:20 GMT

Same issues here.. Anyone find a solution to this, discovery didn't work

Re: No Virtual Entities in VSC

roi_becidan — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:14:27 GMT

Hey Seth,

I've encoutered the same probalem. When running "smvi discover datastores" on the Vcenter I noticed a repeating error message for all the datastores with the

same WWPN ID. I ran "fcp show adapters" on both my netapp machines, and found on one of them the portname was incorrect. even tough through "fcp portname show" it showed the correct WWPN.

I set the portname to an unused WWPN and then set the original value, and afterwards "fcp show adapters" showed the correct WWPN for the adapter portname.

Afterwards SMVI worked fine.

Roi