topic Re: VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin in VMware Solutions Discussions

VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin

AtomicDog — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:45:23 GMT

Hi,

i have upgraded to VSC 7.0. All went fine, storage is found and now i like to copy the NFS-Plugin to the VSC, so i can install it on the hosts from within the VSC. Unfortunately i can not find how and where to copy the Plugin anywhere in the documentation or in the VSC itself. Can someone help me please?

Regards,

Marc

Re: VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin

pkumarp — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 13:49:35 GMT

Hi Marc,

Follow the below given steps to install NFS VAAI plugin on hosts.

1. Upload or copy the NFS vib file to /opt/netapp/vscserver/etc/vsc/web/ by logging in as “diag” user and using the SCP protocol. This can be done using the WinScp.

2. Rename the VIB file you have downloaded to match the predefined name that VSC uses: NetAppNasPlugin.vib

3. Go to NFS VAAI Tools section of VSC UI menu. Click on “Install Host” link.

Do let me know if any further queries.

Re: VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin

AtomicDog — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:15:00 GMT

Thanks for your answer. One more question: Where can i find the password for the diag-user? In VSC 7.0 i only have "administrator" for the Web-GUI and "maint" for console so far.

Regards

Re: VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin

pkumarp — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:08:38 GMT

Hi Marc,

You need to first enable the remote diag user access to VSC 7.0 appliance and while enabling it, you will be prompted to choose a password for "diag" user.

Here are the steps to enable remote diag user:

1. Login to "maint" console.

2. Select the 2nd option "System Configuration"

3. Then select the 6th option "Enable SSH access"

4. Go back to the previous menu and select the 4th option "Support and Diagnostics".

5. Then select the 3rd option "Enable Remote Diagnostic Access". Say "yes" when prompted for "Do you want to enable remote diagnostic access?" .

6. Then you will see the prompt to choose "diag" user password. Once password is set successfully, remote diag user access is enabled.

Next, follow the steps I had provided earlier to install Nfs plugin.

Do let me know if you face any issues.

Re: VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin

AtomicDog — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 10:49:57 GMT

Thank you very much, problem solved 🙂

WinSCP always closed the connection immediately, but i put the Plugin-File on a tiny webserver (HFS) and downloaded it with curl in a putty-session.

Regards, Marc

Re: VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin

AJPEDC — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:16:13 GMT

@AtomicDog wrote:
Thank you very much, problem solved 🙂

WinSCP always closed the connection immediately, but i put the Plugin-File on a tiny webserver (HFS) and downloaded it with curl in a putty-session.

Regards, Marc

Just a quick note - I had the same "issue" with WinSCP closing immediately after connecting. You need to set WinSCP to use SCP, not the default SFTP protocol; connection then works as expected. I hadn't noticed that SCP was specified in the instructions!

Re: VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin

pkumarp — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 04:10:45 GMT

Since few people reported that WinScp disconnects when they try to copy, I am rewriting the steps here by clearly stating to change the protocol from SFTP to SCP before copying. Hope this helps.

1. Launch WinScp, change the default protocol SFTP to SCP in the dropdown list.

2. Login as "diag" user and upload or copy the NFS vib file to /opt/netapp/vscserver/etc/vsc/web/ location.

3. Rename the VIB file you have downloaded to match the predefined name that VSC uses: NetAppNasPlugin.vib

4. Go to NFS VAAI Tools section of VSC UI menu. Click on “Install Host” link.

Re: VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin

morrisetteg — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:33:18 GMT

My apologies for brining up an old topic. Do these steps also apply to VSC 7.1? There is a lot left out of the NetApp documentation unfortunately. When I follow these stest to copy the plugin to VSC 7.1 I get a permission denied error. Thanks!

Re: VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin

Chris_Jones — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 03:37:21 GMT

I too am getting the permission denied error trying to upload NetAppNasPlugin.vib to "/opt/netapp/vscserver/etc/vsc/web/".

You can upload to the /home/diag home folder, but then how do you copy/move that to the above directory?

Re: VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin

scortez — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 15:36:16 GMT

Chris,

follow this guide i wrote for VSC 7.0, this is not needed in 7.1 as a cool new upload feature was created.

http://allthingscloud.mscproductions.com/netapp-unified-virtual-appliance-nfs-plug/

Re: VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin

morrisetteg — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:06:21 GMT

Where is the cool upload feature accessed? I don't see any mention of it in the 7.1 documentation and also do see it while ssh'd into the vsc 7.1. Thanks!

Re: VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin

scortez — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:13:15 GMT

Under NFS VAAI Tools Link

Re: VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin

morrisetteg — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:16:25 GMT

Wow, can't believe I missed that. TYVM

Re: VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin

morrisetteg — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:19:12 GMT

Now to figure out why it thinks hosts are incompatible from this screen but I can install by right clicking the host and selecting NetApp VSC/Install NFS Plug-in...

Re: VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin

Chris_Jones — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:13:52 GMT

Thanks Steve, great post!!!

I noticed the upload option in 7.1 and was like "how did I miss that?!". Great that has been added.

Thank you!

Re: VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin

kdmiehe — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:54:34 GMT

Use sudo in front of your cp command

diag@NVSC01:/jail/upload$ sudo cp NetAppNasPlugin.v23.vib /opt/netapp/vscserver/etc/vsc/web/NetAppNasPlugin.vib

Re: VSC 7.0: Where to copy the NFS-Plugin

MP-SystemEngineers — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:41:37 GMT

I upgraded from 7.0 to 7.2.1 and there's still no upload button in the VSC plugin via VC Flash. I'm on VCSA 6.5U2b. I've restarted both the upgraded VSC and VCSA. NetApps are on 9.4P5.

Thank you to all the posters who allowed me to cobble together a complete solution. The instructions that worked pretty well were here: https://kb.netapp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1029864, with the need to run 'sudo' before the copy command mentioned in this discussion.