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  • ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 9.8 docs
  • Release notes
  • Concepts
    • ONTAP tools Overview
    • VASA Provider configurations for vVols
    • Storage Replication Adapter for disaster recovery
    • Role based access control
      • Overview of role-based access control for ONTAP Tools
      • Components of vCenter Server permissions
      • Key points about assigning and modifying permissions for vCenter Server
      • Standard roles packaged with ONTAP tools
      • Privileges required for VSC tasks
      • Permissions for ONTAP storage systems and vSphere objects
      • How to configure role-based access control for ONTAP tools
    • Configure high availability for ONTAP tools
    • MetroCluster configurations supported by ONTAP tools
  • Deploy and upgrade ONTAP tools
    • Deployment workflow for new users of ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere
    • Deployment workflow for existing users of ONTAP tools
    • ONTAP tools Quick start
    • Requirements for deploying the ONTAP tools
      • Port requirements for VSC
      • Space and sizing requirements for the ONTAP tools
      • Supported storage system, licensing, and applications for the ONTAP tools
      • Considerations for deploying ONTAP tools
    • Deploy ONTAP tools
      • How to download ONTAP tools
      • How to deploy ONTAP tools
      • Enable VASA Provider for configuring virtual datastores
      • Install the NFS VAAI plug-in
      • Clear the vSphere cached downloaded plug-in packages
    • Upgrade ONTAP tools
      • Upgrade to the latest release of ONTAP tools
      • Upgrade Storage Replication Adapter
  • Configure ONTAP tools
    • Workflow for configuring ONTAP tools
    • Configure ESXi settings
      • Configure ESXi server multipathing and timeout settings
      • ESXi host values set using ONTAP tools
    • Configure guest operating systems
      • Configure guest operating system scripts
      • Set timeout values for Windows guest operating systems
      • Set timeout values for Solaris guest operating systems
      • Set timeout values for Linux guest operating systems
    • Requirements for registering VSC in multiple vCenter Servers environment
    • Configure the ONTAP tools preferences file
      • Set IPv4 or IPv6 using the preferences file
      • Enable datastore mounting across different subnets
      • Regenerate an SSL certificate for vsc
    • Configure storage systems
      • Overview of storage system for ONTAP tools
      • Set default credentials for storage systems
      • Add storage systems to VSC
      • Discover storage systems and hosts
      • Refresh the storage system display
      • Configure alarm thresholds
    • Configure user roles and privileges
    • Configure storage capability profiles
      • Overview of storage capability profiles
      • Create storage capability profiles
      • Generate storage capability profiles automatically
    • Configure datastores
      • Provision traditional datastores
      • Map datastores to storage capability profiles
      • Assign QoS policies
      • Verify datastore compliance with the mapped storage capability profile
      • Provision vVols datastores
      • Rebalance vVols datastores
  • Protect datastores and virtual machines
    • Enable Storage Replication Adapter to protect datastores
    • Configure storage system for disaster recovery
      • Configure storage systems for SAN and NAS
      • Configure storage for highly scaled environments
    • Configure SRA on the SRM Appliance
    • Update SRA credentials
    • Migrate Windows SRM to SRM Appliance
    • Configure replication for vVols datastore to protect virtual machines
    • Protect unprotected virtual machines
    • Configure protected and recovery sites
      • Configure VM Storage Policies
      • Configure protection groups
      • Pair protected and recovery sites
      • Configure protected and recovery site resources
        • Configure network mappings
        • Configure folder mappings
        • Configure resource mappings
        • Map storage policies
        • Configure placeholder datastores
        • Configure SRA using array manager
      • Verify the replicated storage systems
  • Manage ONTAP tools
    • Manage datastores
      • Mount datastore on additional hosts
      • Resize datastores
      • Edit a vVols datastore
      • Add storage to a vVols datastore
      • Remove storage from a vVols datastore
      • Mount a vVols datastore
    • Manage virtual machines
      • Considerations for migrating or cloning virtual machines
      • Migrate traditional virtual machines to vVols datastores
      • Migrate virtual machines with older storage capability profiles
    • Modify ESXi host settings
    • Access ONTAP tools maintenance console
      • Overview of ONTAP tools maintenance console
      • VSC and VASA Provider log files
      • Change the administrator password
      • Configure VASA Provider to work with SSH
      • Configure remote diagnostic access
    • Collect the log files
    • Monitor performance of datastores and vVols reports
      • Overview of ONTAP tools datastores and virtual machine reports
      • Analyze performance data using the traditional dashboard
      • Analyze performance data using the vVols dashboard
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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere Documentation

ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere enables you to configure, manage, and protect your virtual datastores in your vCenter Server environment.

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Release notes
Learn about ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere
ONTAP tools Quick start
Deploy ONTAP tools
Upgrade ONTAP tools
Use ONTAP tools
Provision traditional datastores
Provision vVols datastores
Configure role-based access control
Configure remote diagnostics
Configure high availability
Protect and manage datastores
Protect your datastores
Protect virtual machines
Monitor traditional datastores and virtual machines
Monitor vVols datastores and virtual machines
More resources
Documentation for earlier versions of ONTAP tools for VMware
NetApp Knowledge Base - ONTAP tools
NetApp Import Utility - Video
NetApp Community - ONTAP tools
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