SnapCenter supports a wide range of storage types on both physical and virtual machines. You must verify the support for your storage type before installing the SnapCenter Plug-ins Package for Linux.
Storage provisioning using SnapCenter is not supported for SnapCenter Plug-ins Package for Linux.
| Machine | Storage type |
|---|---|
| Physical server | FC-connected LUNs |
| iSCSI-connected LUNs | |
| NFS-connected volumes | |
| VMware ESXi | RDM LUNs connected by an FC or iSCSI ESXi HBA Scanning of host bus adapters (HBAs) might take long time to complete because SnapCenter scans all the host bus adaptors present in the host. You can edit the LinuxConfig.pm file located at /opt/NetApp/snapcenter/spl/plugins/scu/scucore/modules/SCU/Config to set the value of the SCSI_HOSTS_OPTIMIZED_RESCAN parameter to 1 to rescan only those HBAs that are listed in HBA_DRIVER_NAMES. |
| iSCSI LUNs connected directly to the guest system by the iSCSI initiator | |
| VMDKs on VMFS or NFS datastores | |
| NFS volumes connected directly to the guest system |
The storage configurations not supported by SnapCenter Plug-in for Oracle Database are: