SnapManager for Virtual Interface vs SnapCenter Plugin for VMware vSphere
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VSC 6.x
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SCV 4.x
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Comments
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Enterprise Features
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Management interface through vCenter
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✅
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All backup and recovery operations are handled through the vCenter interface.
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Centralized deployment
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⛔️
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✅
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Backup metadata protection
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⛔️
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✅
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SCV leverages the SnapCenter MySQL database to store backup metadata, allowing the database to be separately backed up and restored.
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Windows PowerShell support
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✅
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Rest APIs
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✅
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Storage Deployment
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SAN (VMware Virtual Machine File System [VMFS]) support
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✅
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✅
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NAS (NFS) support
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✅
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✅
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Advanced Virtual Machine (VM) Integration
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Linked mode support
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✅
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One instance of the SCV plug-in is required for each instance of vCenter.
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vCenter RBAC support
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✅
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Data Protection and Management
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Backup VMs, VMDKs, and datastores
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Backup data center
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Backup Now without an existing job or resource group
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✅
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Policy-based backup management
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SCV allows reuse of the same policy for other resource groups and saves time in defining settings such as backup frequency, copy retention, replication, and scripts.
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Data Protection and Management (continued)
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SVM and cluster management LIF support
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✅
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Use multiple schedules per backup job
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⛔️
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Custom snapshot naming
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Restore VMs or Virtual Machine Disks (VMDKs) from the primary NetApp® Snapshot™ copy
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Restore VMs or VMDKs from a secondary Snapshot copy
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Restore datastores
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Recent snapshot
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Suffix _recent to latest snapshot
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Restore files or folders on a guest OS
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⛔️
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✅
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Support is on a Windows guest OS only starting with SCV 4.0 for both VMFS and NFS.
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Mount datastore from a primary Snapshot copy
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The mount operation allows you to access files in the backup, enabling granular recovery.
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Mount datastore from a secondary Snapshot copy
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Attach or detach a VMDK from a primary or secondary Snapshot copy
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✅
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SCV allows restore of files and folders from a Windows or Linux guest OS instead of restoring the entire drive.
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Get detailed job monitoring
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Use a detailed dashboard
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SCV gives a summary of backup, restore, and mount jobs for the selected duration and the last backup status of VMs.
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Get detailed reporting
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You can view and download HTML and CSV reports of backup, restore, and mount jobs and protected or unprotected VMs.
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Benefit of SCV over VSC (6.x)
Better scalability: NetApp SnapCenter Plug-In for VMware vSphere (SCV) supports up to 4,000 VMs per VMware vCenter instance
Better performance: Faster restore operations from a secondary NetApp Snapshot™ copy by leveraging native NetApp ONTAP® single-file NetApp SnapRestore® technology for NFS environments
Richer feature set and protocol support:
- Easier management with policy-based backup
- Capability to restore from secondary snapshots
- Guest file restore (Windows guest OS)
- Ability to attach or detach a Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) from a primary or secondary
- Dashboard, reporting, and job monitoring of VM data protection activities
- VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) 6 and NFS 4.1 support
- Supports FlexGroup
- Support restore to alternate location
- Large LUN support
