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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.

Features

  • Enables the Plug-in for Oracle Database to perform data protection operations on Oracle databases by handling the underlying host storage stack on Linux or AIX systems

  • Supports Network File System (NFS) and storage area network (SAN) protocols on a storage system that is running ONTAP.

  • For Linux systems, Oracle databases on VMDK and RDM LUNs is supported when you deploy the SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere and register the plug-in with SnapCenter.

  • Supports Mount Guard for AIX on SAN filesystems and LVM layout.

  • Supports Enhanced Journaled File System (JFS2) with inline logging on SAN filesystems and LVM layout for AIX systems only.

    SAN native devices, filesystems, and LVM layouts built on SAN devices are supported.

  • Automates application-aware backup, restore, and clone operations for UNIX file systems in your SnapCenter environment