SnapDrive® 7.0 for Windows®

Administration Guide

For SAN Environments

• SnapDrive overview
• What SnapDrive does
• List of current SnapDrive limitations
• Recommendations for using SnapDrive
• Understanding your SnapDrive components
• SnapDrive licensing
• How LUNs work
  • How the storage system interacts with the LUN
  • How Windows hosts interact with a LUN
  • LUN capabilities and limitations
  • Protocols for LUN access
  • How data is accessed from LUNs
• Disk allocation considerations
  • RAID group configuration
  • Hot spare disks
  • How many hot spares you should have
  • How you use aggregates to provide storage to your volumes
• How volume space is used
  • Volume size rules
• Volume and storage system options set by SnapDrive
• How file and LUN reservations work for FlexVol volumes
• Disk space usage with space reservation
• Considerations for setting fractional reserve for FlexVol volumes
• SnapDrive for Windows GUI icon descriptions
• Understanding your SnapDrive components
• Understanding the Volume Shadow Copy Service
  • Understanding VSS
  • SnapDrive VSS requirements
  • Typical VSS backup process
  • Troubleshooting the VSS Hardware Provider
    • Viewing installed VSS providers
    • Verifying that the VSS Hardware Provider was used successfully
    • Verifying your VSS configuration
• Establishing a connection to the storage system
• Managing iSCSI sessions
  • iSCSI Software Initiator node naming requirements
  • Establishing an iSCSI session to a target
    • How SnapDrive uses CHAP authentication
  • Disconnecting an iSCSI target from a Windows host
  • Disconnecting a session to an iSCSI target
  • Examining details of an iSCSI session
• SnapDrive support for ESX iSCSI initiators
  • ESX iSCSI initiator limitations
• Enabling storage system HTTP communication with SnapDrive
• Using SnapDrive in Microsoft environments
• Understanding the new features of Windows Server 2012
  • CSV 2.0 in Windows Server 2012
  • Hyper-V VSS backup changes with Windows Server 2012
  • SnapDrive limitations on Windows Server 2012
• Data ONTAP DSM support for Windows MPIO
• Cluster support
• Support for Microsoft Cluster Shared Volumes
  • Verifying the cluster group owner
  • Changing the cluster group owner
  • Troubleshooting CSVs
• Creating LUNs
  • Rules for creating LUNs
  • What volume mount points are
  • Creating a dedicated LUN
  • Creating a shared LUN
  • Windows Server 2008 and 2012 failover cluster support
  • Configuring a Windows Server 2008 and 2012 failover cluster witness disk
  • Creating a highly available Hyper-V virtual machine using SnapDrive
  • Support for creating disks on a virtual storage server operating in clustered Data ONTAP
    • Requirements for creating disks on a virtual storage server in clustered Data ONTAP
  • GPT partition support
  • Configuring SnapDrive to create LUNs with Virtual Fibre Channel
• Managing LUNs
  • How LUNs work
    • How the storage system interacts with the LUN
    • How Windows hosts interact with a LUN
    • LUN capabilities and limitations
    • Protocols for LUN access
    • How data is accessed from LUNs
  • List of guidelines for connecting LUNs
  • Connecting to a LUN
  • Making drive letter or path modifications to a LUN
    • Adding, removing, or changing a drive letter or path for an existing LUN
    • Moving a mount point with Windows Explorer
  • Guidelines for disconnecting or deleting LUNs
  • Disconnecting a LUN
  • Deleting a LUN
  • Deleting folders within volume mount points
  • Guidelines for resizing disks
  • Resizing a disk
  • Resizing a quorum disk
  • Managing LUNs not created in SnapDrive
    • Guidelines for renaming LUNs
  • Requirements for dynamically adding and removing pass-through disks on Hyper-V virtual machines
    • Hyper-V pass-through disk support limitations
• Managing Snapshot copies
  • Reasons for creating Snapshot copies
  • Restrictions on Snapshot copy creation
  • Creating a Snapshot copy
  • Scheduling Snapshot copies
  • Support for FlexClone volumes in SnapDrive
    • Prerequisites for using FlexClone volumes with SnapDrive
    • About read/write connections
  • Snapshot copy cautions
  • Connecting to a LUN in a Snapshot copy
  • Data protection through archiving and restoring Snapshot backup copies
    • How LUN restoration from Snapshot copies works
      • About the Data ONTAP LUN clone split (rapid LUN restore) feature
      • Restoring a LUN from a Snapshot copy
      • Checking LUN restore status
      • Command-line volume-based Snapshot backup restoration with SnapDrive
      • Support for restoring data at the file level
  • Deleting a Snapshot copy
    • Problems deleting Snapshot copies due to busy snapshot error
• Managing space on storage system volumes
  • What SnapDrive fractional space reservation monitoring does
  • Configuring space reservation monitoring
  • Using the storage access control tool to enable thinly provisioned LUNs
  • What Space Reclaimer does
    • Space Reclaimer requirements and restrictions
    • Starting Space Reclaimer
    • Stopping Space Reclaimer manually
    • Reasons for SnapDrive to automatically stop Space Reclaimer
    • Enabling space reclamation on pass-through LUNs
    • Requirements for running Space Reclaimer on CSVs
• Using SnapDrive in VMware environments
• VMware support
  • VMware ESX server-related limitations
  • Enabling and disabling vCenter or ESX logon from SnapDrive MMC
  • Minimum vCenter privileges required for SnapDrive operations
  • Requirements for VMware vMotion support
• Creating LUNs in VMware environments
  • Creating an RDM LUN on a guest OS
    • Troubleshooting RDM LUN creation
  • Using FC RDM LUNs in a Microsoft cluster
    • Requirements for using FC RDM LUNs in a Microsoft cluster
    • Microsoft cluster support limitations when using FC RDM LUNs
    • Creating a shared FC RDM LUN
• Managing LUNs in VMware environments
  • Connecting to an RDM LUN on a guest OS
  • Guideline for managing RDM LUNs not created in SnapDrive
• Managing Snapshot backups in VMware environments
  • Support requirements for performing Snapshot copy operations in VMDKs on NFS and VMFS datastores
  • Snapshot copy support limitations on VMDKs
  • Troubleshooting VMDKs
    • Inconsistent VMDK disk enumeration
    • Incorrect VMDK disk partition style
    • Independent disks are excluded from backups
    • VMDK unable to discover all VMDK disks
• Support requirements for space reclamation in VMDK files in NFS datastores
• Additional Microsoft clusters on ESX documentation resources
• Performing SnapVault and SnapMirror operations
• Using SnapVault with SnapDrive
  • Considerations when using SnapVault
  • Initiating SnapVault backup jobs from SnapDrive in 7-Mode SAN environments
  • SnapVault operations supported in a clustered Data ONTAP
• Using SnapMirror with SnapDrive for Windows
  • SnapMirror overview
  • Types of SnapMirror replication
    • How SnapDrive manages rolling Snapshot copies
    • How rolling Snapshot copies are named
  • Requirements for using SnapMirror with SnapDrive
  • Initiating replication manually
  • Connecting to a LUN in a mirrored destination volume
  • Restoring a volume on a SnapMirror destination
  • Recovering a cluster from shared LUNs on a SnapMirror destination
    • Configuring the cluster service to start manually
    • Creating a temporary quorum disk
    • Starting the cluster service with the -fixquorum option
    • Connecting to the new quorum disk
    • Connecting to a shared LUN on the SnapMirror destination volume
• SnapDrive integration with OnCommand Unified Manager Core Package data protection capabilities
  • How SnapDrive integrates with OnCommand Unified Manager Core Package data protection capabilities
  • Dataset concepts
• Configuring and managing access control
• Support for storage system access control
  • Using storage system access control
  • Storage system access control reference
    • Storage system access control operations descriptions
    • Storage system access control roles
    • Storage system access control commands
    • Storage system access control command examples
• Enabling RBAC for use with SnapDrive
  • Using RBAC with the OnCommand Unified Manager Core Package server
  • Enabling RBAC on the storage system
  • Configuring SnapDrive for Windows to use RBAC
  • Creating SnapDrive user roles on DataFabric Manager server
  • Assigning roles to SnapDrive users on DataFabric Manager server
• SnapDrive for Windows to DataFabric Manager role mappings
• SnapDrive command-line reference
• About sdcli commands
  • Executing sdcli commands
  • Common command switches
• Configuration commands
  • The sysconfig list command
• Dataset management commands
  • dataset add_members
  • dataset backup_add
  • dataset backup_change_retention_type
  • dataset backup_delete
  • dataset backup_end
  • dataset backup_get_metadata
  • dataset backup_list
  • dataset backup_set_metadata
  • dataset backup_start
  • dataset backup_status
  • dataset backup_version_convert
  • dataset create
  • dataset create_local_backup
  • dataset delete
  • dataset dfm_request
  • dataset get_available_policies
  • dataset get_backup_location
  • dataset get_backup_version_info
  • dataset get_metadata
  • dataset get_policy
  • dataset get_retention_info
  • dataset info
  • dataset initiate_conformance
  • dataset list_members
  • dataset mount_backup
  • dataset protect
  • dataset remove_members
  • dataset restore
  • dataset restore_status
  • dataset set_metadata
  • dataset set_policy
  • dataset transfer_now
  • dataset vss_backup_end
  • dataset vss_backup_prepare
• License commands
  • The license set command
  • The license list command
  • The license remove command
• Initiator group management commands
  • The igroup list command
  • The igroup create command
  • The igroup rename command
  • The igroup delete command
• Fractional space reservation monitoring commands
  • The spacemon list command
  • The spacemon set command
  • The spacemon snap_delta command
  • The spacemon snap_reclaimable command
  • The spacemon vol_info command
  • The spacemon delete command
• Virtual Storage Console commands
  • The vsc_config list command
  • The vsc_config set command
  • The vsc_config delete command
• Space reclamation commands
  • The spacereclaimer start command
  • The spacereclaimer stop command
  • The spacereclaimer analyze command
  • The spacereclaimer status command
• Preferred IP address commands
  • The preferredIP set command
  • The preferredIP list command
  • The preferredIP delete command
• iSCSI connection commands
  • The iscsi_target disconnect command
  • The iscsi_target list command
• iSCSI initiator commands
  • The iscsi_initiator list command
  • The iscsi_initiator establish_session command
  • The iscsi_initiator terminate_session command
• LUN commands
  • The disk create command
  • The disk connect command
  • The disk delete command
  • The disk disconnect command
  • The disk resize command
  • The disk expand command
  • disk add_initiator
  • disk remove_initiator
  • The disk list command
  • The disk add_mount command
  • The disk remove_mount command
  • The disk rename_flexclone command
• Snapshot copy commands
  • The snap create command
  • The snap delete command
  • The snap list command
  • The snap mirror_list command
  • The snap mount command
  • The snap rename command
  • The snap restore command
  • The snap unmount command
  • The snap update_mirror command
  • The snap restore_volume_check command
  • The snap restore_volume command
• SnapVault commands
  • The snapvault verify_configuration command
  • The snapvault snapshot_rename command
  • The snapvault snapshot_delete command
  • The snapvault archive command
  • The snapvault relationship_status command
  • The snapvault snap_list command
• OnCommand commands
  • The oncommand_config list command
  • The oncommand_config set command
  • The oncommand_config delete command
  • The oncommand_config rbaccache command
• Transport protocol commands
  • The transport_protocol list command
  • The transport_protocol set command
  • The transport_protocol delete command
• Virtual server commands
  • The vsconfig list command
  • The vsconfig set command
  • The vsconfig dslist command
  • The vsconfig delete command
• Hyper-V configuration commands
  • The hyperv_config list command
  • The hyperv_config set command
  • The hyperv_config delete command
• Typical SnapDrive configurations
• SnapDrive iSCSI configurations
  • Single host direct-attached to a single storage system using iSCSI
  • Single host attached to a single storage system through a GbE switch
  • Single host attached to a single storage system through a dedicated switch
  • Windows cluster connected to a storage system cluster through a dedicated GbE switch
• SnapDrive FC configurations
  • Single host direct-attached to a single storage system using FC
  • Single host attached to a single storage system through an FC switch
  • Windows cluster attached to a storage system active/active configuration through an FC switch
• SnapDrive MPIO configurations
  • Single host direct-attached to a single storage system using MPIO
  • Windows cluster attached to a storage system active/active configuration through a GbE switch using MPIO
  • Windows cluster attached to a storage system active/active configuration through an FC switch using MPIO
• SAN booting with SnapDrive
  • What SAN booting is
  • How SnapDrive supports SAN booting
• Copyright information
• Trademark information
• How to send your comments

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