Many years ago we discovered the hard way that if a VM has a VMware snapshot on it, the NetApp snapshot for the datastore that VM resides on will not include that VM in the backup. This state will persist until the VMware snapshot is removed. We are now in a situation where someone unfortunately left a VMware snapshot in place during the entirety of our NetApp snapshot retention period, and needed to revert to the VMware snapshot. And worse, the VMware snapshot revert didn't go well. We ended up finding a way to clean up the restored VM but this all got me to thinking. Maybe things have changed? I noticed the SnapCenter wizard actually includes the VM in it's restore options, just like any other VM. Has the limitation been removed? Can restores be done with any VM, regardless of whether there's a VMware snapshot attached or not? Can anyone provide insight on this topic? Thanks in advance!
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Hello community, we are using Snapcenter Powershell Cmdlets to deploy on-demand Flexclones of our ERP database for testing purposes. After updating our Snapcenter installation to version 4.6, the cmdlet "Add-SmCloneJob" fails with error message: -- Add-SmCloneJob : Operation unauthorized. The user you are trying to operate does not have a valid token. In Zeile:1 Zeichen:15 + ... mclonejob = Add-SmCloneJob $instance -PluginCode SMSQL -ClonetoInstan ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (SnapManager.Client.PSModule.AddCloneJob:AddCloneJob) [Add-SmCloneJob], Exception + FullyQualifiedErrorId : -1,SnapManager.Client.PSModule.AddCloneJob -- Resourcegroup is created in Snapcenter - but no clone operations are triggered. No authentication error, while login to Snapcenter via Powershell. Username and password are correct. Do you have any ideas? Im not sure what's meant with "token" in this context. All this works in further versions of Snapcenter. Greets Tobi
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I have an issue where the SPL service dies at least once a month. I looked at the SPL logs and see WARN and FAIL messages related to apache and java errors. Has anyone else ran into this?
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Hello Everyone Need a help with one our storage refresh project . We have a Primary Array (A) and secondary array (B) which currently all volumes in cluster A is replicating to B via snapmirror. We want to refresh the both A and B with new A1 and B1 clusters , what is the best way to this to have min downtime and also being able to resynch snapmirror from new cluster A1 and B1 after the upgrade instead of initializing snapmirror from the base snapshot again. I can rehost the volume from old SVM in old Array A to new SVM in Array A1 and resynch the snapmirror with Array B but this needs downtime (vol rehost) , but when I snapmirror volumes from array A to A1 and then try to resynch A1 to B I get error since ontap can't find the common snapshot. Thanks for your help.
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Hi Community I have problem to delete snapmirror with ansible module na_ontap_snapmirror. When remove the snapmirror with module, the snapshot is removed in source, but I need this snapshot to reverse snapmirror relationship. Does anyone know what the module options to remove only the relationship of the enapmirror This is the playbook: - name: Snapmirror Break na_ontap_snapmirror: state: present relationship_state: broken source_path: 'SVM-NAS-XXXXXXE:FGPruebasPRE' destination_path: 'SVM-XXX:FGPruebasCert' source_hostname: "{{ Netapp_pre }}" hostname: "{{ Netapp_cert }}" username: "{{ user_admin }}" password: "{{ pass_admin_cert }}" - name: Snapmirror Delete na_ontap_snapmirror: state: absent destination_path: 'SVM-XXX:FGPruebasCert' source_path: 'SVM-NAS-XXXXXX:FGPruebasPRE' source_hostname: "{{ Netapp_pre }}" relationship_info_only: True hostname: "{{ Netapp_cert }}" username: "{{ user_admin }}" password: "{{ pass_admin_cert }}" https: true validate_certs: false Regards
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