• 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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