SnapCenter Software 6.1 docs
Release notes
- Release Notes
- What's new in SnapCenter 6.1
- Supported upgrade paths for SnapCenter
Concepts
- SnapCenter overview
- Security features
- SnapCenter role-based access control (RBAC)
- Disaster Recovery
- Resources, resource groups, and policies
- Prescripts and postscripts
- SnapCenter Automation using REST APIs
SnapCenter Server installation
- Installation workflow
- Prepare for installing the SnapCenter Server
  - Domain and workgroup requirements
  - Space and sizing requirements
  - SAN host requirements
  - Supported storage systems and applications
  - Learn about supporting ASA r2 systems in SnapCenter
  - Supported browsers
  - Connection and port requirements
  - SnapCenter licenses
  - Register to access the SnapCenter software
  - Authentication methods for your credentials
  - Storage Virtual Machine connections and credentials
  - Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- Install the SnapCenter Server on Windows host
- Install the SnapCenter Server on Linux host
- Log in to SnapCenter
- Configure CA Certificate for Windows host
  - Generate CA Certificate CSR file
  - Import CA Certificates
  - Get the CA certificate thumbprint
  - Configure CA certificate with Windows host plug-in services
  - Configure CA certificate with SnapCenter site
  - Enable CA Certificates for SnapCenter Server
- Configure CA Certificate for Linux host
- Configure and enable two-way SSL communication on Windows host
  - Configure two-way SSL communication on Windows host
  - Enable two-way SSL communication on Windows host
- Configure and enable two-way SSL communication on Linux host
  - Configure two-way SSL communication on Linux host
  - Enable SSL communication on Linux host
- Configure Certificate-based Authentication
  - Export Certificate Authority (CA) certificates from SnapCenter Server
  - Import CA Certificate to the Windows host plug-ins
  - Import CA Certificate to the UNIX host plug-ins and configure root or intermediate certificates to SPL trust-store
    - Import CA Certificate to the UNIX host plug-ins
    - Configure root or intermediate certificates to SPL trust-store
  - Enable certificate-based authentication
  - Export SnapCenter certificates
- Configure Active Directory, LDAP, and LDAPS
  - Register untrusted Active Directory domains
  - Configure CA client certificate for LDAPS
- Configure High Availability
  - Configure SnapCenter Servers for High Availability
  - High availability for the SnapCenter MySQL repository
- Configure role-based access control (RBAC)
  - Add a user or group and assign role and assets
  - Create a role
  - Add an ONTAP RBAC role using security login commands
  - Create SVM roles with minimum privileges
  - Create SVM roles for ASA r2 systems
  - Create ONTAP cluster roles with minimum privileges
  - Create ONTAP cluster roles for ASA r2 systems
  - Configure IIS Application Pools to enable Active Directory read permissions
- Configure audit log settings
- Add storage systems
- Add SnapCenter Standard controller-based licenses
- Provision your storage system
  - Provision storage on Windows hosts
  - Provision storage in VMware environments
- Configure secured MySQL connections with SnapCenter Server
- Features enabled on your Windows host during installation
- Features enabled on Linux host during installation
Protect Microsoft SQL Server databases
- SnapCenter Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server
- Prepare to install the SnapCenter Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server
- Install SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere
- Prepare for data protection
  - Prerequisites for using SnapCenter Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server
  - How resources, resource groups, and policies are used for protecting SQL Server
- Back up SQL Server database, or instance, or availability group
- Restore SQL Server resources
- Clone SQL Server database resources
Protect SAP HANA databases
- SnapCenter Plug-in for SAP HANA Databases
- Prepare to install the SnapCenter Plug-in for SAP HANA Database
- Install SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere
- Prepare for data protection
  - Prerequisites for using the SnapCenter Plug-in for SAP HANA Database
  - How resources, resource groups, and policies are used for protecting SAP HANA databases
- Back up SAP HANA resources
- Restore SAP HANA Databases
- Clone SAP HANA resource backups
Protect Oracle databases
- Overview of SnapCenter Plug-in for Oracle Database
- Install SnapCenter Plug-in for Oracle Database
- Install SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere
- Prepare for protecting Oracle databases
- Back up Oracle databases
- Mount and unmount database backups
- Restore and recover Oracle databases
- Clone Oracle database
- Manage application volumes
Protect Windows file systems
- SnapCenter Plug-in for Microsoft Windows concepts
- Install SnapCenter Plug-in for Microsoft Windows
- Install SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere
- Back up Windows file systems
- Restore Windows file systems
- Clone Windows file systems
Protect Microsoft Exchange Server databases
- SnapCenter Plug-in for Microsoft Exchange Server concepts
- Install SnapCenter Plug-in for Microsoft Exchange Server
- Install SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere
- Prepare for data protection
- Back up Exchange resources
- Restore Exchange resources
Protect IBM Db2
- SnapCenter Plug-in for IBM Db2
- Prepare to install the SnapCenter Plug-in for IBM Db2
- Prepare for data protection
  - Prerequisites for using the SnapCenter Plug-in for IBM Db2
  - How resources, resource groups, and policies are used for protecting IBM Db2
- Back up IBM Db2 resources
- Restore IBM Db2
- Clone IBM Db2 resource backups
Protect PostgreSQL
- SnapCenter Plug-in for PostgreSQL
- Prepare to install the SnapCenter Plug-in for PostgreSQL
- Prepare for data protection
  - Prerequisites for using the SnapCenter Plug-in for PostgreSQL
  - How resources, resource groups, and policies are used for protecting PostgreSQL
- Back up PostgreSQL resources
- Restore PostgreSQL
- Clone PostgreSQL resource backups
Protect MySQL
- SnapCenter Plug-in for MySQL
- Prepare to install the SnapCenter Plug-in for MySQL
- Prepare for data protection
  - Prerequisites for using the SnapCenter Plug-in for MySQL
  - How resources, resource groups, and policies are used for protecting MySQL
- Back up MySQL resources
- Restore MySQL
- Clone MySQL resource backups
Protect Custom applications
- SnapCenter Custom Plug-ins
- Develop a plug-in for your application
- Prepare to install SnapCenter Custom Plug-ins
- Prepare for data protection
  - Prerequisites for using the SnapCenter Custom Plug-ins
  - How resources, resource groups, and policies are used for protecting custom plug-in resources
- Back up custom plug-in resources
- Restore custom plug-in resources
- Clone custom plug-in resource backups
Protect applications using NetApp supported plug-ins
- NetApp supported plug-ins
- Prepare to install NetApp supported plug-ins
- Prepare for data protection
  - Prerequisites for using the NetApp supported plug-ins
  - How resources, resource groups, and policies are used for protecting NetApp supported plug-ins resources
- Back up NetApp supported plug-ins resources
- Restore NetApp supported plug-ins resources
- Clone NetApp supported plug-ins resource backups
Protect Unix file systems
- Overview of SnapCenter Plug-in for Unix file systems
- Install SnapCenter Plug-in for Unix file systems
- Install SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere
- Prepare for protecting Unix file systems
- Back up Unix file systems
- Restore and recover Unix file systems
  - Restore and recover Unix file systems
  - Monitor Unix file systems restore operations
- Clone Unix file systems
Protect applications running on Azure NetApp Files
- Protect applications running on Azure NetApp Files
- Install SnapCenter and create credentials
- Protect SAP HANA databases
- Protect Microsoft SQL Server databases
- Protect Oracle databases
Manage SnapCenter Server and plug-ins
- View dashboard
- Manage RBAC
- Manage hosts
- Operations supported from the Resources page
- Manage policies
- Manage resource groups
- Manage backups
- Delete clones
- Monitor jobs, schedules, events, and logs
- Overview of SnapCenter reporting capabilities
- Manage the SnapCenter Server repository
- Manage resources of untrusted domains
- Manage the storage system
- Manage EMS data collection
Upgrade SnapCenter Server and plug-ins
- Configure SnapCenter to check for available updates
- Upgrade Workflow
- Upgrade the SnapCenter Server on Windows host
- Upgrade the SnapCenter Server on Linux host
- Upgrade your plug-in packages
Tech refresh
- Tech refresh of SnapCenter Server host
- Tech refresh of SnapCenter plug-in hosts
- Tech refresh of storage system
Uninstall SnapCenter Server and plug-ins
- Uninstall SnapCenter plug-in packages
- Uninstall the SnapCenter Server on Windows host
- Uninstall the SnapCenter Server on Linux host
Automate using REST APIs
- Overview of REST APIs
- How to access SnapCenter REST API natively
- REST web services foundation
- Basic operational characteristics
- Input variables controlling an API request
- Interpretation of an API response
- REST APIs supported for SnapCenter Server and plug-ins
- How to access REST APIs using the Swagger API web page
- Get started with the REST API
Legal notices

Installation workflow of SnapCenter Plug-in for Microsoft Windows

01/15/2025 Contributors

You must install and set up SnapCenter Plug-in for Microsoft Windows if you want to protect Windows files that are not database files.

Installation workflow of SnapCenter Plug-in for Microsoft Windows

Creating your file...