So the other day I was performing initial steps to decommission a NetApp cluster. We are keeping it in place for two weeks so we can restore from snapshots if needed. As part of the decommission, I of course removed SnapMirror and SnapCenter jobs. Much to my shock, removing the SnapCenter job in the vCenter plug-in (i.e. the Resource Group) removed not only the job but ALL THE SNAPSHOTS that the job had created!! It felt like I'd been hit with a virus.
Needless to say I opened a case. My second shock was to discover this is BY DESIGN:
https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/sc-plugin-vmware-vsphere/scpivs44_manage_resource_groups.html#delete-resource-groups
To me this is amazing that this is default behavior, with no way to change it as far as I can tell. I am requesting a feature request to allow a check box to override this behavior, but wanted to post it here for additional visibility. I can't imagine anyone thinking that deleting a backup job would delete the backups. I've never seen a single backup software program do that in my life, from any vendor.
Anyone from NetApp care to comment? Can this be changed?
