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SnapCenter Software 6.0

What you can do with the SnapCenter Plug-in for Unix file systems

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When the Plug-in for Unix file systems is installed in your environment, you can use SnapCenter to back up, restore, and clone Unix file systems. You can also perform tasks supporting those operations.

  • Discover resources

  • Back up Unix file systems

  • Schedule backup operations

  • Restore file system backups

  • Clone file system backups

  • Monitor backup, restore, and clone operations

Supported configurations

Item Supported configuration

Environments

  • Physical server

  • Virtual server

    vVol datastores on both NFS and SAN. vVol datastore can only be provisioned with ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere.

Operating systems

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  • Oracle Linux

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

File systems

  • SAN:

    • Both LVM and non LVM based file systems

    • LVM over VMDK ext3, ext4, and xfs

  • NFS: NFS v3, NFS v4.x

Protocols

  • FC

  • FCoE

  • iSCSI

  • NFS

Multipath

yes

Limitations

  • Mix of RDMs and virtual disks in a volume group is not supported.

  • File level restore is not supported.

    However, you can manually perform file level restore by cloning the backup and then copying the files manually.

  • Mix of file systems spread across VMDKs coming from both NFS and VMFS datastore is not supported.

  • NVMe is not supported.

  • Provisioning is not supported.