Talk with other users about your NetApp data storage solutions and VMware server and desktop virtualization solutions, as well as NetApp Virtual Storage Console (VSC) for VMware’s vSphere cloud computing foundation.
Talk with other users about your NetApp data storage solutions and VMware server and desktop virtualization solutions, as well as NetApp Virtual Storage Console (VSC) for VMware’s vSphere cloud computing foundation.
Latest Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere only supports up to vSphere 6.7
For a while now VMWare went to vSphere version 7. What is the ETA for a new version of Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere and a NetApp NFS Plug-in for VMware VAAI that supports vSphere 7 ?
In a demo pool I implemented a virtual storage console on a vSphere 7. The VASA ( NetApp NFS Plug-in for VMware VAAI 1.1.2) provider is installed on the ESXi hosts but showing as not being capable of hardware acceleration in the vSphere 7 client. The option to Rapid clone is not available. The virtual storage console is available and shows information inside the vSphere 7 client but there isn't much to do. It lost alot of functionality compared to vSphere 6.7 environment.
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Hi Team, After adobe EOL am unable to verify the VSC plugin in my vcenter and unable check VSC version from the web console (https://<vcenter>/ui). we want to verify the VSC current version in our vcenter could you please suggest me on the possible ways to check or help me with the commands to verify from vcenter.
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Hey all, I don't know if here is the right place to ask, please be patient 🤗 We have On-prem environment based on VMWare vsphere (a few ESXi hosts and VMware VCenter). We also have Snap Center plugin for vmware VCetner installed on the VCenter itself, and a dedicated server for backups (snap center server on windows os, snap center version 4.0) Since the plugin for VCenter is installed, we can to do a simple recovery actions from snapshots (restore a single vmdk file, de-attach and attach disks, restore entire vm, etc...). Those actions automatically creats a datastore (usually named snap-<some uid>) managed by the snap center vmware 'run as account'. I will call these 'snap center datastores' However, a regular user still can create Virtual disks on these datastores - makig it difficult to manage. We thought create a storage policy that prevent a regular VM disks reside on Datastore generated by the snap center. For this to come out, we need to find a way to attach vmware tag to each datastore created by the snapcenter. Is it possible to define some vmware storage tag added automatically to those datastores when they are created? This is important for us since we have some "leftovers" - snap center datastores being kept for a long time for some research reasons. Hope this message is clear enough 😊 Tankwell
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Hello,
Does anyone have a construct of NetApp VSC / Snapcenter plugin VMware and VMware Site Recovery in use? Since Site Recovery version 6.5, after activating/setting up Site Recovery Manager in NetApp VSC 6.2.2, the Backup item has disappeared. Only after deactivating the SRM and reinstalling the VSC is the backup point available again. The VMs which are replicated with Site Recovery Manager to the other location and booted there in case of a failure of location "A" are located in an extra datastore. A Metrocluster is unfortunately not an alternative... Does anyone have this also working in use with a Snapcenter?
Cheers,
Peter
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Hello, I am attempting to reduce rights to the bare minimum on local OnTAP service accounts to increase our security posture. I've created a custom role for the VSC service account that just allows for discovery, however it occurred to me that we can probably go further. We use VSC for one single purpose only: to verify our ESX host settings match NetApp best practices. The only thing we do is browse to Overview and click Edit ESXi Host Settings when we have a new ESX host added. With this in mind: do we need an account on the cluster at all? Do we have to perform discovery if all we do is apply appropriate settings to ESX hosts? In other words: do I even need a local service account at all? Would love to hear any suggestions or thoughts!
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