• VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA docs
• Release notes
• Quick start
• Deploy and upgrade
  • Overview of the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
  • Deployment workflow for new users of VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA virtual appliance
    • Deployment workflow for existing users of VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
  • Requirements for deploying the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
    • Port requirements for VSC
    • Space and size requirements for the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
    • Supported storage system, licensing, and applications for the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
    • Considerations and requirements for deploying the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
  • Deploy or upgrade VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
    • How to download the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
    • Deploy the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
      • Deployment customization considerations
    • Enable VASA Provider for configuring virtual datastores
      • Register with the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
    • Install the NFS VAAI plug-in
    • Enable Storage Replication Adapter
      • Configure SRA on the SRM Appliance
      • Update Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) credentials
    • Migration of Windows SRM to SRM Appliance
    • Upgrade to the 9.7.1 virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
    • Upgrade Storage Replication Adapter
  • Configure your Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere environment
    • Configure ESXi server multipathing and timeout settings
      • ESXi host values set using Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere
      • configure guest operating system scripts
        • Set timeout values for Windows guest operating systems
        • Set timeout values for Solaris guest operating systems
        • Set timeout values for Linux guest operating systems
    • Regenerate an SSL certificate for
    • Requirements for register VSC in multiple vCenter Servers environment
    • Configure the VSC preferences files
      • Set IPv4 or IPv6
    • Enable datastore mounting across different subnets
    • Access the maintenance console options of the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
    • Change the administrator password
    • Configure high availability for the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
      • VMware vSphere HA
      • VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance
    • MetroCluster configurations supported by the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
  • Configure your Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere storage system environment
    • Set default credentials for storage systems
    • Add storage systems to VSC
    • Discover storage systems and hosts
    • Refresh the storage system display
  • vCenter Server role-based access control features in VSC for VMware vSphere
    • Components of vCenter Server permissions
    • Key points about assigning and modifying permissions for vCenter Server
    • Standard roles packaged with the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
      • Guidelines for using VSC standard roles
    • Privileges required for VSC tasks
      • Product-level privilege required by VSC for VMware vSphere
      • ONTAP role-based access control for the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
      • Recommended ONTAP roles when using VSC for VMware vSphere
      • How to configure ONTAP role-based access control for VSC for VMware vSphere
      • Configure user roles and privileges
  • Configure Storage Replication Adapter for disaster recovery
    • Configure Storage Replication Adapter for SAN environment
    • Configure Storage Replication Adapter for NAS environment
    • Configuration of Storage Replication Adapter for highly scaled environment
  • Troubleshoot issues with the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
    • Clean the vSphere cached downloaded plug-in packages
    • Uninstall does not remove standard VSC roles
    • VSC and VASA Provider log files
    • VSC and VASA Provider services restart in highly scaled environments
    • Configure VASA Provider to work with SSH
    • Configure the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA to use SSH for remote diag access
    • SRA installation fails with script error
    • SRA fails to perform optimally in a highly scaled environment
    • Unable to install the SRA plug-in
    • NetApp Storage Replication Adapter for ONTAP does not appear on the Site Recovery Manager Appliance
    • Error during fresh deployment of virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
• Manage
  • Workflow for configuring the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
  • Configure storage systems for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
    • Add storage systems to VSC
    • Set default credentials for storage systems
    • Configure alarm thresholds
  • Create storage capability profiles
    • What storage capabilities are
    • Considerations for creating and editing storage capability profiles
    • Configure storage capability profiles
  • Configure traditional datastores and virtual machines
    • Provision datastores
    • Map datastores to storage capability profiles
    • Generate storage capability profiles automatically
    • Verify datastore compliance with the mapped storage capability profile
    • Monitor datastores and virtual machines using the traditional dashboard
    • Edit ESXi host settings for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
  • Configure vVols datastores
    • Configure replication for vVols datastore
    • Provision vVols datastores
    • Monitor vVols datastores and virtual machines using the vVol dashboard
      • vVol dashboard data requirements
  • Manage disaster recovery setup by using Site Recovery Manager
    • Configure VM Storage Policies
    • Configure protection groups
    • Pair protected and recovery sites
    • Configure protected and recovery site resources
      • Configure network mappings
      • Configure folder mappings
      • Configure resource mappings
      • Map storage policies
      • Configure placeholder datastores
      • configure SRA using array manager
    • Verify replicated storage systems
    • Protect unprotected virtual machines
  • Manage traditional and vVols datastores
    • Mount datastore on additional hosts
    • Resize datastores
    • Edit a vVols datastore
    • Ad storage to a vVols datastore
    • Remov storage from a vVols datastore
    • Mount a vVols datastore
    • Considerations for migrating or cloning virtual machines
    • Migrate traditional virtual machines to vVols datastores
    • Migrate virtual machines with older storage capability profiles
  • Understand Virtual Storage Console reports
    • What reports do
    • Datastore Reports
    • vVols reports
  • Troubleshoot issues with the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
    • Collect the log files
    • VVol datastore provision fails with large number of volumes
    • Issue while editing VM Storage Policies after upgrade
    • VASA Provider status shows as “Offline” in vCenter Server GUI
    • Error while accessing the VSC Summary page of virtual appliance
    • Error deleting a datastore after network settings are changed
    • Virtual machine provision fails with an undefined error
    • Thick provision of VVols fails for ONTAP 9.4 storage systems
    • Datastore inaccessible when volume status is changed to offline
    • Add storage system with IPv4 results in authentication error with IPv6 status in storage system grid
    • File creation error while provisioning virtual machines on VVol datastores
    • Incorrect status 'Failover in Progress' is reported for SRA in SRM
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