SnapCenter backups failing due to busy "SIS Clone" snapshot
My Oracle DBA's have reported issues using SnapCenter whereby following a restore subsequent backups fail due to an undeletable snapshot owned by "SIS Clone". This also results in no snapshots...
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Snapcenter UI Date format in Monitoring Pane and Logs
We are using Snapcenter 4.6. On the monitor tab the dates are not in our locale format for Ireland namely dd-mm-yyyy but rather they are in mm/dd/yyyy (US format): Is there any way to change this or...
View Articlesnapshots size and volume full
Program is SnapcenterI have backup job on resource group level with one Server in the past there where 3 Server in Group. So i leave it so.I normally make FULL DB backup one per day. retention is 3...
View ArticleSnapCenter Plug-in for VMware Least Privilege
Currently we connect the SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware to vCenter via the local vCenter administrator account, as seen in the plug-in admin dashboard. I would like to change this to an account with...
View ArticleSnapCenter Migration to a new Server
Hello,I've to migrate our Snapcenter to a new server (new hostname) in another domain.Is this supported by NetApp and is there a KB how to do this? Regards,Bernie
View ArticleHow to Preserve a SnapCenter Snapshot
I need to preserve the oldest snapshot on a volume for about a week before it rolls off automatically tonight. The snapshot is for a datastore volume and was created by the SnapCenter plug-in for...
View ArticleTape drive multipath connect
Hi everyone,I would like to hear your opinion. 4 node cluster and Tape-SAN environment.Does Storage System in this KB mean Cluster? Or is it node (controller)...
View ArticleSnapshot hardware revert
Hello if I have two LUNs on the same volume and I take a snapshot of the volume can I revert (restore) a single LUN from the snapshot? could I use the command "volume snapshot restore-file" ?Regards...
View ArticleSnapCenter Server 4.7 P filter in monitor pane
Is there something we could do to speed up the filtering in the monitor pane of snapcenter 4.7 P1? It is damned slow.
View Articlesnapcenter: delete obsolete administrators
Hi,We have already a bunch of obsolete administrator accounts within snapcenter and we'd like to delete them, to avoid questions and explanations at the next security audit. Is there a risk of orphan...
View ArticleProblem with powershell New-SmClone and AssignMountPointUnderPath
Hello,I am trying to clone a backup of some SQL-Server databases to another server and everything works great when i let SnapCenter controle the mountpoint with AutoAssignMountPoint.Full...
View ArticleXCP create directory on target
Maybe I am missing something, but how do i get XCP to create the source directory on the target?xcp copy vserver1:/volume1/directory1 vserver2:/volume2this command copies the FILES in directory1 to the...
View ArticleHow to delete SnapCenter backups based on date
For some reason we have a lot of old backups in snapdrive SQL databases...We would like to delete all backups older than a specific date, but only from the primary location. (we have two snapvault...
View Articleadvanced disk partition(ADP) with syncmirror
Hello, everyone. You want to configure syncmirror from Pool0 (aggr1) to None-ADP (Pool1) configured with ADP.Could you give me a TR document or advice on whether this configuration is possible? Thank...
View ArticleXCP delete - show a list of all deleted files
HiIm trying to use xcp for deleting a huge amount of old files on a volume with 127963385 used indoes.xcp seems a good option for this task as the speed of deletion is high, but I need to get a list of...
View ArticleEMC Avamar work along with NetApp NDMP configuration and settings
Hello I have a customer who is looking to set up EMC Avamar to work with NetApp NDMP what are the best practise/settings and for this to work
View ArticleHow to implement "real-time" snapmirror repliaction?
hey guys. I have 2 diffrent netapp under 1 roof (AFF250 running ONTAP9.10 and FAS2650 running NTAP9.9.1). The AFF250 has a CIFS SVM thats hosting a file server of some sort and i want to create a...
View ArticleEol for SMBR, how to script it?
Hey, SMBR is now EoL. The nice function of mounting Snapshots by by selecting the DB and time is now gone.SnapCenter is no longer supporting the mount of a Snapshot as drive letter (why?). So I need to...
View ArticleNDMP Backup Configuration with CAB
Hi. My client it’s using NDMP for FlexGroups backups by using Netbackup 10.0 . We want to take advantage of CAB so we configured the “SVM-scoped” for all the data SVM’s and using as...
View Articlexcp initial configuration
In the process of setting up xcp to copy from our original to a new filer. Required as the original has language of 'C' and it needs to be 'US_eng' I am absolutely not understanding where to configure...
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