SCF 4.1 - vSphere Restore failing

[mmodi]

Following issue when trying to restore VMs–

• - [2014-02-24 11:01:32,229] ERROR: [127.0.0.1:9090 (4.1.0.1)] (Mon Feb 24 11:00:42 2014) [vmw-00047] ONTAP API call volume-clone-create failed: Illegal value for 'space-reserve': 'NONE'

Error code	Error message	Description/resolution
vmw-00047	Data ONTAP API call volume-clone-create failed:	The reported Data ONTAP API call was unsuccessful. Read the error message and contact technical support for any necessary assistance in translating the error message. The condition can normally occur in situations where RBAC is in use and the Snap Creator user on the storage controllers do not have sufficient access for the API call.

[mmodi]

I have found the issue : BUG with case sensitivity issue

Replace "NONE" to "none" for parameter "NTAP_VOL_CLONE_RESERVE" required for VMFS datastores to be cloned to perform host based VMDK copy / restore.

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#     Clone Options #

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NTAP_VOL_CLONE_RESERVE=none

Note that every time the GUI is use to perform the restore, config file reverts back to using capital letters.

We either use CLI (post editing the config file to using lower case - "none") or override GUI option as below -