OnTAP 9.10.1 P3 Commvault (Simpana) 11.26   We have some CIFS-served file systems with millions of tiny files that are between difficult and impossible to backup using a Windows proxy to back up the shares as file systems. Encouraged by some past experiences with OnTAP 8.something and early Commvault 11 in another shop, I'm setting up NDMP backups for a comparison test.    The NDMP configuration documentation notes that network firewall policies were replaced by network interface service policies starting in 9.6 and are deprecated in 9.10 and beyond -- but the documentation wasn't updated beyond that, so there's no documentation on what these service policies should look like.    I'm also seeing NDMP act like it's single-threaded across multiple Commvault backup jobs (subclients). I'm using  cluster-aware backups with the cluster SVM. Shouldn't there be a way to let multiple jobs run concurrently in different branches of the volumes' file systems? Surely a file serving cluster knows about concurrent activity, right?    So, does anyone have a Best Practices document for NDMP in OnTAP at 9.6 or later?    Thanks, Nick ... View more

Program is Snapcenter I have backup job on  resource group level  with one Server in the past there where 3 Server in Group. So i leave it so. I normally make  FULL DB backup one per day. retention is 3 Day. A also create me a backup job to make backup on instance level with different retention. backup job on DB level i dont have. Now i become a task to do a manually backup  and i should disable backup job which is used normally. 1.I deactivate the backup job 2. check space on volume so i can make a additional manually backup, everything was OK 3. i make a manually full backup on instance level.  check the space on volume and everything was OK. then some guy is making something on server he change DB . No backup job is activated. But after one day volume was full, no space left. old snaphot where deleted only one stayed .  But this was not the snapshot which i create manually.   ... View more

Hello, I've to migrate our Snapcenter to a new server (new hostname) in another domain. Is this supported by NetApp and is there a KB how to do this?   Regards, Bernie ... View more

Currently we connect the SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware to vCenter via the local vCenter administrator account, as seen in the plug-in admin dashboard. I would like to change this to an account with limited required access. I'm aware of the following two pages, however I'm not clear on the differences between them. Should I create a role that has both sets of rights or just one? Would love any insight, especially from anyone who has done this. Thanks!   https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/sc-plugin-vmware-vsphere/scpivs44_deployment_planning_and_requirements.html#rbac-privileges-required   https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/sc-plugin-vmware-vsphere/scpivs44_minimum_vcenter_privileges_required.html  ... View more