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.
Enhancements to the SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere
- Supports REST APIs for all plug-in functionality except guest file restore.
- Supports custom names for Snapshot copies during a backup.
- Supports built-in workgroup user for guest file restore operations.
- Supports IPv6.
- Supports vSphere 6.7 or 6.7U1 (vCenter Flash client only)
Enhancements to the SnapCenter Plug-in for Microsoft Exchange Server
Enhancements to the SnapCenter Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server
Enhancements to the SnapCenter Plug-in for Oracle Database
- 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.
Enhancements to the SnapCenter Plug-in for SAP HANA Database
- 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.
Enhancements to the SnapCenter Custom Plug-ins
- 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
Enhancements to SnapCenter documentation