SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere 4.6P1 or later

ONTAP 9.8 or later

NetApp Console

NFS and VMFS datastores are supported. vVols are not supported.

For VMFS support, the SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere host should be running on 4.9 or later. Ensure to take a backup of the VMFS datastore if the SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere host was upgraded from an earlier version to the 4.9 release.

At least one backup should have been taken in SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere 4.6P1.

At least one daily, weekly, or monthly policy in SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere with no label or same label as that of the Virtual Machines policy in the Console.

For a pre-canned policy, the schedule tier should be the same for the datastore in SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere and in the cloud.

Ensure that there are no FlexGroup volumes in the datastore because backing up and restoring FlexGroup volumes are not supported.

Disable "_recent" on the required resource groups. If you have "_recent" enabled for the resource group, then the backups of those resource groups cannot be used for data protection to cloud and subsequently cannot be used for the restore operation.

Ensure that the destination datastore where the virtual machine will be restored has enough space to accommodate a copy of all virtual machine files such as VMDK, VMX, VMSD, and so on.

Ensure that the destination datastore does not have stale virtual machine files in the format of restore_xxx_xxxxxx_filename from the previous restore operation failures. You should delete the stale files before triggering a restore operation.

To deploy a connector with proxy configured, ensure that all outgoing connector calls are routed through the proxy server.

If a volume backing up a datastore is already protected from the Volumes tab (NetApp Backup and Recovery → Volumes), then the same datastore cannot be protected again from the Virtual Machines tab (NetApp Backup and Recovery → Virtual Machines).