What's new in this release

SnapCenter software includes several new features and enhancements.

Enhancements to SnapCenter Software

Supports Microsoft Windows Server 2019.
Supports multisite data center.
The SnapCenter Server and the plug-in host can be at different geographical locations.
Supports Active Directory domains without trust.
Supports workgroup users.
Supports ONTAP 9.4 or later including increased Snapshot copy counts per volume.
Supports suspending of backup schedules of multiple hosts in a single click.
Provides a new option to view getting started videos of SnapCenter from the Get Started tab in the GUI.
You must be able to connect to YouTube to view the videos.
Provides a new Count column in the Backup Details table of the topology view for a resource.
Note: The Count column provides a granular count of the backups on primary and secondary storage.
Supports canceling backup jobs that are running or nonresponsive in the SnapCenter Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server and SnapCenter Plug-in for Oracle Database.
Note: Support for canceling queued backup and restore jobs (not running jobs) existed in previous versions of other plug-ins.

Supports backup and restore with existing SnapMirror and SnapVault relationships.
Supports backup and restore to and from secondary sources.
Supports reseed of passive replicas from local Snapshot copy.
Supports copy-only backups with no log truncation.
Typically, you use this backup type for reseeding a replica, for testing, or diagnosing a problem.

Supports FCI cloning.
Supports reseed optimization, enabling Availability Group (AG) database reseed and restore operations to access other replica log backups as a network share instead of mounting the storage.
Supports custom log directory path for restoring to alternate host.
When a custom log directory path is given, the files are read from the given location rather than mounting the directory.
Supports Microsoft SQL Server 2017.
Supports specifying a custom name for the clone database while creating an on-demand clone.
Supports canceling backup jobs that are running or nonresponsive.

Supports parallel restore of multiple databases
Supports Oracle RAC One node and third-party cluster solutions (active-passive)
Supports refreshing of a clone from command-line interface using the command Refresh-SmClone.
For cloning to alternate host, you can have a different version of the OS on the alternate host but not a different OS distribution as that of the source database host.
For example, if primary host has RHEL 6.5, alternate host can have RHEL 6.6 but it cannot have SLES.
Supports FlexASM cluster.
Provides a new option to confirm the host fingerprint while adding Linux hosts for enhanced security.
Supports 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, and 6.4 versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Linux.
This support is limited to NFS configurations only.
Supports 6.5 version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Linux in both NFS and SAN configurations.
Supports canceling backup jobs that are running or nonresponsive.

Supports all file restore using PowerShell cmdlet. With this, you can select all files or selective files.
Supports non-data volume REST API, enabling you to perform volume-based backups of SAP HANA binaries along with SAP HANA databases.

New SnapCenter Custom Plug-ins released in the NetApp Automation Store:
- SnapCenter Plug-in for SAP MaxDB
- SnapCenter Plug-in for SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (SAP ASE)
- SnapCenter Plug-in for Storage

New videos are posted at the SnapCenter TechComm TV YouTube playlist.
NetApp TechComm TV: SnapCenter playlist
New Getting Started Guide.
Streamlined Administration Guide.

For more information, see the Release Notes.