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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 supports both primary and secondary protection of applications running on physical systems and on Virtual Machine File Systems (VMFS). SnapCenter uses REST APIs for all operations on ASA r2 systems. ASA r2 systems do not support ZAPIs.

Operations supported by SnapCenter for ASA r2 systems

  • Creating primary backups of applications

  • Moving hierarchical consistency group snapshots to secondary storage system

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

  • Raw Device Mapping (RDM)

  • Protection of application volumes for Oracle

  • Protection of SAP HANA NDV

  • LockVault

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

SnapCenter discovers or creates ONTAP consistency groups. It sets up SnapMirror relationships on the destination cluster for secondary protection. Learn more about ONTAP consistency groups.

Note After you upgrade to SnapCenter 6.2 (server and plug-ins) and ONTAP 9.17.1, SnapCenter changes flat consistency groups to hierarchical consistency groups during the first scheduled backup.

To learn how to enable secondary protection on ASA r2 systems for your application, see:

Operations not supported by SnapCenter for ASA r2 systems

  • Tamperproof snapshots

  • FlexGroup volumes

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

  • Protection of databases with a mix of ASA, AFF, or FAS resources and ASA r2 resources

  • Renaming of snapshots

  • Provisioning of Windows resources

  • Secondary protection if there is SnapMirror active sync failover

  • Nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) protocol if SnapMirror active sync is enabled

  • Protection of applications running on AIX

  • Tech refresh

  • Disaster recovery of Microsoft SQL resources