Virtual Storage Console 5.0 for VMware® vSphere®

Installation and Administration Guide

Changes to this document: April 2014
How to use this guide
Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere overview
How VSC for VMware features work with optional plug-ins
VASA Provider for clustered Data ONTAP and VSC for VMware vSphere
- Alarm options available with VASA Provider
Provisioning and cloning datastores and virtual machines
How VSC for VMware vSphere optimizes I/O performance of misaligned virtual machines
Methods for migrating virtual machines
Backing up and restoring virtual machines and datastores
VSC for VMware vSphere protects system resources by using lock management
VSC for VMware vSphere architecture
Plan your VSC for VMware vSphere installation
VSC for VMware vSphere installation overview
VSC for VMware vSphere supported configurations
Initial installation of VSC for VMware vSphere
- Installing VSC for VMware vSphere using the installation wizard
- Installing VSC for VMware vSphere using silent mode
Installing or uninstalling the VSC backup and restore features
Upgrade installation of VSC for VMware vSphere
- Performing a standard VSC for VMware vSphere upgrade installation
- Upgrading VSC for VMware vSphere from a 32-bit installation to a 64-bit installation
Uninstalling VSC for VMware vSphere using Add/Remove Programs
- Uninstalling VSC for VMware vSphere using silent mode
VASA Provider for clustered Data ONTAP installation
VASA Provider supported configurations
Installing VASA Provider for clustered Data ONTAP
Maintaining VASA Provider for clustered Data ONTAP
Deleting VASA Provider for clustered Data ONTAP
NetApp NFS Plug-in for VAAI installation
Configuring your VSC for VMware vSphere environment
ESX server and guest operating system setup
- Configuring ESX server multipathing and timeout settings
  - ESX host values set by VSC for VMware vSphere
  - UNMAP setting turned off in ESX 5.x
- Timeout values for guest operating systems
VSC for VMware vSphere configuration
- Registering VSC for VMware vSphere with vCenter Server
- Regenerating an SSL certificate for VSC for VMware vSphere
- VSC for VMware vSphere port requirements
Managing connection brokers
- Adding connection brokers
- Removing connection brokers
VASA Provider for clustered Data ONTAP configuration
- Registering VASA Provider for clustered Data ONTAP with VSC for VMware vSphere
- Creating and editing storage capability profiles
- Setting alarm thresholds in VASA Provider for clustered Data ONTAP
- Mapping storage to storage capability profiles
- Auto-generating storage capability profiles
- Checking for datastore compliance with the mapped storage capability profile
Configuring AutoSupport for backup jobs
Configuring email alerts for backup jobs
The preferences files
Enabling datastore mounting across different subnets
Setting the frequency of NFS path optimization checks
Configuring vCenter Server Heartbeat to work with VSC for VMware vSphere
Authentication and user management with vCenter RBAC and Data ONTAP RBAC
vCenter Server role-based access control features in VSC for VMware vSphere
- Components that make up vCenter Server permissions
- Key points about assigning and modifying permissions
- Advanced example of using vCenter Server permissions
Standard roles packaged with VSC for VMware vSphere
Product-level privilege required by VSC for VMware vSphere
- Example of how the View privilege affects tasks in VSC for VMware vSphere
Data ONTAP role-based access control features in VSC for VMware vSphere
- Recommended Data ONTAP roles when using VSC for VMware vSphere
How to configure Data ONTAP role-based access control for VSC for VMware vSphere
Requirements for performing tasks in VSC for VMware vSphere
Navigating VSC for VMware vSphere
Working with storage systems
Storage system discovery and credentials overview
- Default credentials simplify administrating storage systems
  - Specifying default credentials
- Tunneled vFiler units and SVMs discovered automatically
- Enabling discovery and management of vFiler units
- Enabling discovery and management of vFiler units on private networks
- Discovering storage systems and hosts
- Refreshing the storage system display
- Removing storage systems from VSC
Correcting storage system names displayed as "unknown"
Managing settings for volumes
MultiStore vFiler units are displayed differently
Differences between direct connections to SVMs and to cluster-management LIFs
Direct path access and NFS datastores
- Changing NFS data paths to direct access
Deploying virtual machines on NetApp storage
Provisioning datastores
Cloning virtual machines from a template
Increasing storage efficiency by enabling deduplication
Optimizing performance by aligning the I/O of misaligned virtual machines non-disruptively
Scanning datastores to determine the alignment status of virtual machines
Checking the alignment status of virtual machines
Aligning the I/O of misaligned virtual machines non-disruptively
Maintaining your VMware environment
Migrating virtual machines to a new or existing datastore
Redeploying NFS-based virtual machine clones from a template
Reclaiming space from NFS-based virtual machines
Mounting datastores on hosts
Resizing datastores
Destroying datastores
Backing up virtual machines and datastores
Backup job specifications
Backup job requirements
Performing an on-demand backup of a virtual machine or datastore
Scheduling backup jobs
Adding a virtual machine or datastore to an existing backup job
Modifying the job properties of a scheduled backup job
Suspending an active backup job
Resuming a suspended backup job
Deleting a scheduled backup job
Restoring virtual machines and datastores from backup copies
Considerations for restore operations using data that was backed up with failed VMware consistency snapshots
Searching for backup copies
Mounting a backup copy
Unmounting a backup copy
Restoring data from backup copies
Troubleshooting
Information at NetApp VSC Communities Forum
Check the Release Notes
Uninstall does not remove standard VSC roles
Collecting the VSC for VMware vSphere log files
Updating vCenter credentials for background discovery
Resolution of issues that apply to backup and restore operations
- Values that you can override for backup jobs
- Location of backup event and error logs
- Email notification for scheduled backup contains a broken link
- You may have reached the maximum number of NFS volumes configured in the vCenter
- Error writing backup metadata to repository\backups.xml: move failed
- Virtual Storage Console unable to discover datastores on a Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) without a management LIF
- VMware vSphere does not remove all snapshot delta disks during a restore operation
Provisioning and cloning programmable API
The virtual machine clone engine
The datastore management engine
The file copy/clone offload engine
Provisioning and Cloning methods
- Virtual machine clone creation and redeploy engine
  - createClones
  - RedeployVMs
- Datastore management engine
- Connection Broker features
  - performViewImport
  - createXenImportFile
- Copy/Clone offload engine
- Utility methods
Provisioning and Cloning specifications and messages
- RequestSpec
- CloneSpec
- VmFileSpec
- DatastoreSpec
  - Required parameters
- ControllerSpec
- VmSpec
- GuestCustomizationSpec
- ConnectionBrokerSpec
- StatusMessage
Provisioning and Cloning sample code
Provisioning and Cloning client-side programming
- Accessing the SOAP API through Java
  - Generating a certificate for use with the wsimport tool
- Accessing SOAP through C#
Creating custom user accounts for backup and restore operations
Using the VSC CLI to create a custom user account
Using the VSC CLI to create a custom user account for a storage system
VSC CLI commands
Launching the VSC CLI
smvi backup create
smvi backup delete
smvi backup list
smvi backup mount
smvi backup rename
smvi backup restore
smvi backup unmount
smvi discover datastores
smvi filerestore add-portgroup
smvi filerestore delete-portgroup
smvi notification list
smvi notification set
smvi notification test
smvi restoreagent set
smvi servercredential delete
smvi servercredential list
smvi servercredential set
smvi storagesystem list
smvi version
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