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Supported SnapCenter operations for ASA r2 systems

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ASA r2 storage systems are supported beginning with SnapCenter 6.1. Learn more about ASA r2 systems

SnapCenter leverages REST APIs to perform all operations on ASA r2 systems, which do not support ZAPIs.

Operations supported by SnapCenter for ASA r2 systems

  • Creating primary backups of applications over VMDK

  • Transferring consistency group snapshots to secondary storage system

  • Restoring the backups from primary and secondary storage systems to the original host or to the alternate host

    • In-place restore from both primary and secondary storage systems using VMware vMotion

    • Connect and copy restore from both primary and secondary storage systems

  • Cloning the backups to the original host or to the alternate host

SnapCenter can discover or create ONTAP consistency groups. It can also provision and initialize SnapMirror relationships to the destination cluster for secondary protection.

For information on enabling secondary protection on ASA r2 systems for your application, refer to:

Operations not supported by SnapCenter for ASA r2 systems

  • Raw Device Mapping (RDM)

  • Application volumes for Oracle

  • SAP HANA NDV

  • LockVault

  • Tamperproof snapshots

  • FlexGroup volumes

  • Hierarchical consistency group

  • Migration from ASA, AFF, or FAS storage systems to ASA r2 storage systems

  • Protection of databases that have mix of ASA, AFF, or FAS resources and ASA r2 resources

  • Renaming of snapshots

  • Secondary provisioning of the log directory of SQL plug-in host