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Commvault Intellisnap Query

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I have to do some Commvault configuration work for a NetApp CIFS setup. I was reviewing the Lab On Demand for Commvault, specifically the difference between Snap Backup and normal backup. While I see that the Snap Backup is quicker and efficient.  The Snapshot backup is on the primary NetApp. If I lose that snapshot, I cant restore from it? Plus I don't want to retain many backup copies on the Primary as it's not classed as the backup NetApp. If I use the normal backup process, I know it takes longer but the data is at my backup location. 

 

Therefore, would I use a Backup Copy job to copy the Intellisnap created snapshot to my backup location? 

 

Thanks


Snapmirror and Vault fan-out

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Hi All,

 

As I search fan-in and fan-out, if filerA vault filerB with filerA vault filerC not support. But I am strange it could setup in my simulator without problem.

 

How about filerA "mirror-vault" filerB with filerA vault filerC? Are support?

 

 

Best regards,

 

Chung

SnapCenter deferred SQL Verification Jobs

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HI there

 

Snapcenter Version 4.3.1P2

MS SQL 2016 on Server2016

 

I have been trying to schedule a deferred verification on an SQL resource group. The group has 3 policies attached

 

1: A logs only back up runs every 30mins on the 15th and 45th Min

2: A full back up with logs and no verify runs every 2 hours on the odd hours 1,3,5 etc

3: A full backup with logs with remote verify runs every 6 hours on the 00, 06, 12, 18

 

In the Gui I have set the verification schedule to every 6 hours on the 01, 07,13,19 

 

Once setup I can see all the backup jobs in the scheduler screen and 1 to 3 run on time, but as expected 3 does not execute the verify. When the time for the verify comes nothing happens, there are no jobs started and after 1-2 mins the schedule changes to the next run time in 6 hours with no errors that I can find in any of the logs etc.

 

I have tried setting the verify schedule to the same times as policy 3 i.e 00, 06 etc and have the same outcome, backup runs but no verify is undertaken.

 

if i invoke a manual backup using policy 3 and select verify it works fine.

 

if I alter the verification options to remove the schedule and use  the run after backup option , i.e no deferred schedule then the backup runs and the verification is undertaken.

 

Have I misunderstood the verification schedule purpose?

 

if so can someone explain where I am going wrong please?

 

Also what is the deferred backup number in the verification schedule meant to do, I have it set to 1, the documentation is unclear so a little light on its purpose would also help

 

thank you

 

 

 

SnapCenter restore from the SnapVault secondary

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Hi,

 

Setting as below:

- primary filer 9.5, DR site secondary filer 9.5 with SnapVault protection without schedule

- WIN1 (Windows 2012) iSCSI access primary filer LUN only

- SnapCenter 4.3.1P2 backup host WIN1 and update SnapVault after creating a local Snapshot copy without problem

 

Restore from Local copies Snapshot no problem, but when select Secondary Vault Backup and restore, restore failed with "Failed to mount the Snapshot copy from the SnapVault secondary".

 

Best regards,

 

Chung

Mailbox recovery wiht SMR Problem

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Hi i have Exchange 2016, snapcenter 4.3, vcentern 6.7,Storage is NetApp.

I want to recovery one Mailbox that i can restore the contacts.

I know the Mailbox Name and the Database. I start Single Mailbox Recovery, I can connect to Server i See the Database and also the Snapshot, but when i choice the snapshoot and want to mount it. the Windows with mount process is after 10 minutes not finish.  When i go directly to NetApp i see volume that a clone is mounted.

Im really dissapointed About this snapcenter.

is there a possibility that i restore Mailbox without single Mailbox recovery? or that i mount the snapshoot manually add clone to Server and then only Import to single Mailbox recovery i sow this one time but now i cannot remmeber.

No option to commit changes to NTP in System Configuration Menu NetApp DatBroker

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Option 5 gives the option to change NTP IP Address/FQDN with comma separated values. You can input these values and get a message that says that it was changed successfully and to press ENTER to continue. Once you do that and select "x" to EXIT a message pops up saying you have changes that have not been committed and if you're sure you want to exit with a y/n prompt but none of the 9 options on the system configuration page offers to commit the changes.  There is nowhere I can even find out what my NTP is currently set to. 

Convert policy snapmirror from MirrorAndVault to MirrorAllSnapshot

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Hello,

 

I wish to copy all snapshot from the source volume to the destination volume. First, the snapmirror relation was the policy  MirrorAndVault. So I convert the snapmirror relation to policy MirrorAllSnapshot but the all snapshots is not copied on the destination.

Are they a solution to make this ?

 

Thank you.

Cleanup secondary backups job is running

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Hi i have snapcenter 4.3

i found in Programm out under monitor that cleanup secondary backup Jobs are still running/are not finished.

Maybie this is only Display error???

i also make a

Stop-SmJob -JobId 23442 but nothing changessnapcenter.JPG

 

 

under Task Scheduler Task is not running. is allready finish.


SnapCenter Snapshot - inconsistent snapshots

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Hello

 

All the snaps taken with snapcenter is showing consistent: false

 

Is this correct?

 

I can attach, clone etc with these snapshots. No errors or warnings in snapcenter. Backup job completed successful. Doesn't matter if its windows file system backup (consistent snapshot is selected) or sql db backup all shows "Consistent: false" on netapp

 

Our environment: vmware 6.5, snapcenter 4.4

 

All the luns are connected to the guest os using iscsi. DB etc are not stored on vmdk/datastore. SnapCenter Plugin for VMware vSphere is not installed as its required for us - but shouldn't matter as the databse, luns etc are not vmdk or rdm

Can't upload MySQL plugin to SnapCenter host (4.3.1P2)

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When attempting to browse and upload plugin the following error occurs-

 

There are some problems with the Plugin_Descriptor.xml file of plug-in package 'Plugin_descriptor' : End of Central Directory record could not be found.

SnapCenter plugin modifies Windows hostfile

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Hello

We deployed SnapCenter solution in our environment and lately, security scan has alerted that Windows machines host files has been modified. I've checked them and I can see that vservers management LIFs are added there. For me it's clear that SC plugin for Windows done that change - but can someone confirm if this is normal behavior and also observed such thing?

Snapcenter datastore jobs are slow

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I have snapcenter 4.3. 2 ,Plug-in for vspere virtual appliance 4.2 ,vcenter 6.7 

I see today that the job where 4 datastore were backuped need 30 minutes that is finish.

is this normal? snapshot of datastore is finish in few second when i look at netapp volumes.

I was thinking the job is finish in max 10 minutes.  but i check the logs all job are so slow.  

Invitation to participate in SnapCenter 4.5 Beta/Preview/Early Access Program

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Thank you for being our valued partner and participation in our previous EAP programs.

We are pleased to announce SnapCenter 4.5 Beta/Early Access Program(EAP), launching on April 17, 2021.

Expression of interest to participate, can be submitted with this form.

 

We will be sharing the details of SC 4.5 payload with the participants over email.

EAP or community page for SC 4.5:  https://community.netapp.com/t5/SnapCenter-4-5-EAP-Beta/ct-p/snap_45_eap

*Signed NDA is a pre-requsite to get access to the preview build.

 

Regards

SnapCenter Product Team

SnapCenter Remote Offline Verification of MS SQL AOAG database members

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Hi there

 

Looking for some help with the Verification of MS SQL AOAG database members. I have a simple AOAG setup across 2 SQL Servers  for DB1.

 

I want to offload CheckDB to an offline server on a remote site so the assigned policy Schedule snapmirrors the data and log volumes etc. to the second site and the remote serve is selected as the verification server.

 

What I am seeing is that the Database from the Primary node always fails verification as an NTFS storage snapshot cannot be created, the other database from the secondary node is completed ok on the same server. I have proven this by failing over the AOAG and re-running the Snapcenter Job., with the primary always failing.

 

The fix seems to be to specify the Tablock option on the verification tab of the SnapCenter Policy. This allows both the Primary and Secondary Database files to complete Checkdb on the remote server successfully.

 

I have also found that if I clone the primary DB and mount on a remote server that I can execute CheckDB from SQL manually with no issues.

 

Therefore, can anyone confirm if this issue with checking a Primary AOAG Database is to be expected and that Tablock should always be specified for an AOAG database when verify remotely?

 

Or suggest if I am missing something in my setup. Note file/folder permissions have all been checked and verified, and  SQL servers are same version etc

 

Finally does anyone know what snapcenter skips (other than the NTFS snapshot) when the Tablock option is selected?

 

thank you

Unable to locate /usr/lib64/libHBAAPI.so library

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servername:/software/Netapp\ # sanlun fcp show adapter
Unable to locate /usr/lib64/libHBAAPI.so library
Make sure the package installing the library is installed & loaded

 

This is on Oracle Linux 7.9. Let mem know what needs to be done to fix this issue.

 

TIA


Exchange KB5001779 breaks SnapManager for Exchange

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I have a few older servers still using SnapManager rather than SnapCenter, and the critical security update that Microsoft released a few days ago (KB5001779) completely breaks SnapManager compatibility - backup jobs no longer run, and console reports "Unable to determine Exchange virtual server group status before SnapManager operation" straight upon opening. This is happening both in Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2019, same error. I have opened a case with support, but while I'm waiting for a response, has anyone else run into this, and is there a workaround?

Migrate an snapvault destination aggr to a new controller ?

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Hi to all

The customer has a old filer, with snapvault destination volumes and aggrs inside that.They bought a new controller with new disks.We will ,first configure the new filer for future snapvault destinatinon.Then they want us to connect the old filers shelves to the new controller.

My question is about the snapvault volumes, they have been in place for the last 5 years, and lots of data inside them.

If we connect the old shelves to new filer, and assign the disks to this new filer, do we have the old structure of aggrs and volumes with snapshots?.Or do we loose snapshots or something else,

In my opinion, all the aggr, volume and snapshots must retain ,but i havent tried something like that.

 

what is your opinion?

regards

 

 

SnapCenter plugin migration to new vCenter

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We're running vCenter 6.7 U3 and are migrating to vCenter 7.0. Both are appliances, fresh install of 7.0, no Windows at all. We're running SnapCenter 4.4 with the databrokers. One databroker per vCenter. Is it just a matter of pointing to the new vCenter in the databroker webpage? <https://ipaddress:8080>

 

I can't seem to find the instructions for that scenario.

 

Thanks!

Snapcenter snapping maxdb and oracle on one host

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Hi,
I'm running Snapcanter 4.3.0 and have already several maxdb and several oracle hosts configured to get snaped.

All works fine. 

Now i have a running maxdb host (already snaped by snapcenter) and on this host i need to snap an oracle instance in addition. I added the oracle plugin and so the host owns the maxdb plus the oracle plugin.

In resource view i chose oracle and so the oracle instance got discovered fine. I configured the protection, added schedule, load (storage)locators and completed this task.

As soon as i start the oracle backup, the job started in monitor-view and hung forever. No connection to the host, no host-logfile, not even en entry at the server-side SmCoreService logfile. The SMCore_JOBID Logfile said:

 

2020-06-11T16:39:01.0796098+02:00 ERROR SMCore_121384 PID=[22044] TID=[108] Error executing job handler: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at SnapMgrCoreService.BackupHandler.Execute(SmRequest request)
at SnapMgrCoreService.SmJobManagerConsumer.Execute(SmRequest request)

 

I had to cancel the job by cmdlet command.

 

The maxdb snapshot works fine, all the time.

 

Any idea?

SnapCenter for VMWare

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We have SnapCenter for VMware in place will start working on details.

A few questions may make our work easier.

1.  if we take snapshots on VMs through the SnapCenter, will the snapshots be stored on NetApp volumes or VMWare datastores?

2. we plan to use VM snapshots to replace NDMP backups, since we have big amount of VMs, is that a good idea to schedule snapshot policies on datastores instead of on VMs? will the snapshot process takes longer if we do so? which way is the better choice?

3. we currently using Veritas NetBackup to back up VMs by using NDMP, sometime the snapshot causes issue on VMs, snapshot take too long or not delete correctly. is that possible we can direct the snapshot from datastore to volume?  or any other ways to improve the process?

thanks for sharing !!

 

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