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Known limitations with NetApp Backup and Recovery for KVM workloads

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Platforms, devices, or features that do not work or do not work well with this version are listed here. Read these limitations carefully.

The following actions and configurations are not supported in the private preview version of KVM workloads in NetApp Backup and Recovery:

Unsupported actions

The following actions are not supported in the private preview release:

  • Clone, mount, or unmount VMs

  • Restore VMs to an alternate location

  • Protect VMs stored on SAN

  • Protect applications

  • Edit protection groups

  • Create protection groups using VMs from multiple KVM hosts

  • Create user-defined backups (only backups initiated from the NetApp Console are supported)

Unsupported configurations

The following configurations are not supported:

  • Role-based access control (RBAC)

  • Disks directly attached to the KVM host

  • Disks spanned across multiple NFS mount points or shares

  • RAW disk format

  • Storage pool types other than NetFS (only NetFS is supported)