Checkout REST API's for reporting exposed for SnapCenter. In the demo you will see how you can build customize SnapCenter backup report using any reporting tool like in this demo Power BI is used.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOqO_3r_-vw&list=PLdXI3bZJEw7nofM6lN44eOe4aOSoryckg&index=1
Relatively new on NetApp, try to understand and practice the SnapVault. Can someone share your experience?
thanks.
1. can we create SnapVault snapshot copies from replicated vols or all snapshots have to be snapmirrored from source vols?
2. in case the data corrupted in destination vol, are we still able to restore data from snapvault copies?
3. if we keep snapvault for years and data changes big and often, will the destination vol need a lot of space to keep snapshot copies?
4. I assume normally snapvault copies will only be kept on destination, if big size vol restore will be needed, will it take too much time to recover?
5. we plan to make tape copy on source site, is that a good idea compare to destination since it is away from production site?
Hi, we have 3 instances of Snapcentre. Logon pages look the same on each instance. Is it possible/support to change the logon web page so I could include the server name or the like to create a more 'instance specific' feel? I'd imagine I can hack around this but likely any upgrade will revert any changes I make. Wondering if there is a customization folder or the like to implement custom CSS etc.
New to SnapCentre. Does use of SnapCentre negate the requirement for Snapdrive at the target server where storage is presented.
Attempting to install the snapcenter for Microsoft Windows and the Exchange plug in, the push install gives me the following errors:
1. The minimum .NET framework version required on the host is v4.5.2. Install or upgrade the .NET framework on server.company.com and restart the host.
2. Checking for Blocked Firewall Ports failed on host server.company.com .Exception: The network path was not found.
3. The required PowerShell version 4.0 is not available on server.company.com . Install or upgrade the PowerShell to 4.0 and restart the host.
The HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Net Framework Setup\NDP\v4\full\1033 key says that it is release 528049 (which is 4.8.2)
The $PSVersion table shows that I have powershell 4.0
Attempting a silent install from the client fails and the install never writes to the log files specified in the install string.
Using Snapcentre for Oracle 3.4.1 P4 on Windows 2008 R2 (don't ask why! 🙂 ). Obviously SMO works by creating flex-clones in the underlying storage then presenting back to the OS as a new instance of oracle. It was indicated to me though that these clones of the DB could not be split out into a new standalone DB like you would when you split a flexclone off from it's parent.
Is that the case or can SMO clones be split?
Two Windows Server 2016 virtual machines running on top of ESXi 6.7 in a Microsoft cluster. ONTAP 9.7P8. Servers are using in-guest iSCSI initiators to mount a number of LUNs as CSV disks. SQL Server 2017 is installed as a failover cluster (not AlwaysOn groups) on these CSV disks. SnapCenter 4.4 is managing both VMs with plug-ins for Windows and MSSQL. SnapCenter for VSphere plug-in virtual appliance is installed and configured, but not linked to the SnapCenter server itself, so the C: drive VMDKs are not managed by SnapCenter. Policies and schedules are configured to back up the databases residing in the CSV disks.
Problem: about half the time backup jobs are executed, both full and log backups, they fail with an error message "Unable to find any healthy resource on NetApp storage".
This has started when this Windows/SQL cluster was deployed several months ago to replace a previous Windows Server 2008 R2/SQL 2012 cluster that was using clustered LUNs (not CSVs) and SnapManager rather than SnapCenter, and was not exhibiting this behavior. At the time, SnapCenter was running version 4.3.1P2, and the filer was running ONTAP 9.4P5. Since then, the filer has been replaced by a new AFF A220 (new cluster, new LUNs, data was moved by SQL backup/restore), and SnapCenter has been upgraded to version 4.4, but the problem persists. There is another SQL server in the same environment using the same settings except that it isn't clustered, so I suspect that the root of the problem is somewhere in the cluster settings, but I can't figure out what it is. Moving the instance between cluster nodes does not help with the problem. I tried digging through SMCore and plug-in logs but couldn't find anything pertinent.
Good Evening
Following the process described in "How to Configure NLB and ARR with SnapCenter" (https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Protection_and_Security/SnapCenter/How_to_configure_NLB_and_ARR_with_SnapCenter) and it work fine with version 4.3.
With version 4.4 the command Enable-smrepositoryhaconfig returns the error message "failed to execute the sql command to set the master configuration the user or password is incorrect"
Running the command Enable-smrepositoryhaconfig subsiquently returns "MySQL High Avaliability is already configured"
Running the next command in the process "set-smrepositoryconfigurationsettings.." return message "username or password not supplied.
The 2 nodes are Windows 2016 in workgroup and on the same subnet.
Thanks in advance for any contributions
Is the new file level restore option in Cloud Backp available for backups taken from on-prem ONTAP clusters?
I have been evaluating SnapCentre and the Oracle Plugin (Linux). One thing that strikes me as missing is any kind of visualization of the clone hierarchy like we had in SMO. I'm finding it very difficult to track the clones back to the actual snapshots. This was all visualized in SMO.
Hello Netapp.Community,
we try to backup our first MaxDB-Systems.
We were able to install the maxdb-plugin on our Host (RHEL8).
We get these message when we want to backup the MaxDB:
We created a user on the system called snapadm and configured sudo and PATH-variable:
[snapadm@sapaexqv01 ~]$ echo $PATH
/home/snapadm/.local/bin:/home/snapadm/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sapdb/QEX/db/bin
##Sudo-User for SnapCenter
Cmnd_Alias HPPLCMD = sha224:ixqWGFtPO4V8GF2nrHRLGNr77hxudiN3vFhcwQ== /home/snapadm/.sc_netapp/snapcenter_linux_host_plugin.bin, /opt/NetApp/snapcenter/spl/installation/plugins/uninstall, /opt/NetApp/snapcenter/spl/bin/spl
Cmnd_Alias PRECHECKCMD = sha224:sZ/BzfT0pc81O1JeEF7gQA7ykrBrvYKj0L3xLA== /home/snapadm/.sc_netapp/Linux_Prechecks.sh
snapadm ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:SETENV: HPPLCMD, PRECHECKCMD
Defaults:snapadm !visiblepw
Defaults:snapadm !requiretty
With snapadm I can check the database like this:
[snapadm@sapaexqv01 ~]$ dbmcli -d QEX -u control,password db_state
OK
State
ONLINE
See also the attached File to see our SnapCenter-Config
I hope I get help here.
Best Regards Christoph Greiner
I have Exchange 2016, I have DAG. Snapcenter 4.3.2
daily backup i have logs and full for 7 days (Retention all 3 Options i have 7.
but i want also Exchange Weekly backup start every Sunday at 3:15 Am, Retention 2 Weekly copies. are this Settings of Retention correct?
Hello ,
We have a SnapCenter Standalone server in PROD ( using vsphere , exchange and SQL Plug-ins ) with more than 100 hosts configured .We would like now to configure a NLB environment to have HA in place .
I know that Switching from a SnapCenter standalone installation to an NLB installation or vice versa and switching from a MySQL standalone setup to MySQL HA are not supported but i've a question :
is it possible to create a new fresh NLB environment with 2 nodes ( different location ) and than restore the Reposiroty from previous standalone snapcenter server ? Maybe we also need to keep hostname and IP to use as NLB Virtual IP ?
Is there a place to give feedback, make feature requests etc. for SnapCenter?
We have been evaluating SC 4.4 as we need to move away from SMO for Oracle 19c support. We are finding a lot of limitation on the SC UI around admin aspects that were easy in SMO. Some examples:
Perhaps I am not using the product as it is intended but these have proved very frustrating.
The plugin for Linux seems to have a bundled tool named SCCLI as per this article. I am wondering if this command is calling local resources or tunneling back up to the Windows Snapcenter and running powershell commands?
Hi,
We have 2 Snapcenter environments : 1 for production and 1 for acceptance.
Is there a way that we can copy / move backups or clones from one environment to the other ?
We are using the mysql plugin on snapcenter 4.3.1 P2. The plugin auto creates the mysql instance resource. But when we try to configure the credentials for the resource we get the error that "No username password " during the quiesce phase of backup.
Credential prep: local unix account created on target, same account created with full privileges on all databases, such that mysql -u <user> -p gains access to mariadb database. The local account is given passwordless sudo (just to make it easy).
SnapCenter credentials created as linux credential.
mariadb "SELECT @@datadir;" is /var/lib/mysql and is a NFS mount
The documentation for the mysql plugin states that there really isn't too much tinkering with the plugin arguments, certainly are any credential arguments listed or documented. I started to suspect that MySQL and mariadb have diverged sufficiently to break it?
Hi guys,
I'm using vsphere plug-in for snapcenter 4.4.
I'd like to create a customized schedule in the backup jobs but the only option I have is hourly, daily, weekly, monthly (frequency field).
What if I want to create a backup job every 4 hours for example ?
THX
Keep safe all
