Hi all,   Does anyone know if the VAAI NAS Full File Clone Primitive works across volumes with aggregate dedupe in 9.6?   Not tried it yet, so thought i'd ask. ... View more

i had deployed "ontap tools for vmware" which is the new name for VSC for vmware.But the same problem occured again. Which is the conttroller is unknown state ,with the following error message   "Error occurred while fetching storage system privileges: No Controller found for controller id [Unknown .x.x.x.x"   the compability is ok, as i checked from IMT,   what i had done is, add default credential, and modified the storage controller credential and re-discover again,but same result.   I had collected all the logs also from the plugin , searched for a clue, ıt is mostly like below,   any ideas???     Controller queue contents: Unknown - 10.96.12.40 (Unknown - 10.96.12.40) 2021-08-11 14:23:10,997Z [Queue Watcher] DEBUG (DiscoveryPool) - Host queue contents: Controller queue contents: Unknown - 10.96.12.40 (Unknown - 10.96.12.40) 2021-08-11 14:23:17,121Z [qtp9361871-1901] DEBUG (VscControllers) - getPopulatedController() DISCOVERY_LOCK - for controller id: java.lang.Object@2cb58eca 2021-08-11 14:23:18,234Z [qtp9361871-1901] DEBUG (VscControllers) - GetALLCluster: getControllersWithoutHosts started 2021-08-11 14:23:18,234Z [qtp9361871-1901] DEBUG (VscControllers) - getPopulatedController() DISCOVERY_LOCK - for controller id: java.lang.Object@2cb58eca 2021-08-11 14:23:18,234Z [qtp9361871-1901] DEBUG (VscControllers) - GetALLCluster: getControllersWithoutHosts - getPopulatedControllers method call finished 2021-08-11 14:23:18,234Z [qtp9361871-1901] DEBUG (VscControllers) - GetALLCluster: getControllersWithoutHosts completed 2021-08-11 14:23:18,238Z [qtp9361871-1901] DEBUG (VscControllers) - getPopulatedController() DISCOVERY_LOCK - for controller id: java.lang.Object@2cb58eca 2021-08-11 14:23:19,201Z [qtp9361871-1925] DEBUG (VscControllers) - getPopulatedController() DISCOVERY_LOCK - for controller id: java.lang.Object@2cb58eca ... View more

We had an unusual event last week that I wanted to share.  I had seven VMs on a NetApp NFS-based vVol.  Our Cohesity backups kicked off at 3:01pm and by 3:04pm, the VMDK files for six of those VMs went missing (the .vmdk descriptor files were still there, but the .vmdk file containing the actual data were somehow inaccessible).  All versions of software were supported per NetApp's IMT: VMware versions were 7.0U1, VSC was 9.7.1P1, ONTAP was  9.7P6, VAAI plugin was 2.0.  The one remaining VM on the same vVol was undamaged, and two other VMs on a separate vVol also remained intact.  We've never had trouble with Cohesity backing up hundreds of other VMs on "regular NFS" datastores and this was the first time we'd seen trouble on a vVol datastore.   We were able to restore the VMs from backups taken the previous day and with little/no data loss.  I currently have ticket 2008782637 in with NetApp on how to delete the suspect vVol because vCenter won't allow it.  (vCenter thinks that VMs still reside on the vVol and it's probably right - even though the old, broken VMs have been deleted, their VMDKs likely exist *somewhere* in the vVol.)  The only recent change I made was that I moved one VM to the impacted vVol and two VMs off of it in the hours before the backup.  (vVols had been working so well for us that I wanted to put another production VM on vVols and remove two non-production ones.)   I'll continue to use vVols, but only for test VMs for the near future. ... View more

hey,   Is there a NetApp Plugin for VMware Orchestrator (VRO)? For example to add a datastore to the SnapCenter policy automatically after creation...   What is the recommended integration? Thanks Tankwell ... View more