HTTP and HTTPS transport protocol support

SnapDrive for Windows allows you to use HTTP or HTTPS in addition to the default RPC protocol for storage system communication. This feature, along with CIFS share dependency removal, means you are no longer required to have root access on the storage system for SnapDrive-related operations.

SnapDrive enables configuration of HTTP or HTTPS for individual storage systems. It also allows you to set a default transport protocol in case one has not been specified for individual storage systems.

Transport protocols can be configured either during SnapDrive installation or after SnapDrive has been installed.

The httpd.admin.enable option must be set on the storage system in order for SnapDrive to use the HTTP or HTTPS protocol.

Note: Using the domain Administrator account for authentication results in significantly reduced performance. To avoid this issue, use a storage system account for authentication instead of the domain account.

Note: HTTPS is not supported with MultiStore.