SnapDrive 6.3 for Windows Installation and Administration Guide

• Copyright information
• Trademark information
• About this guide
• Audience
• Terminology
• Keyboard and formatting conventions
• Special messages
• How to send your comments
• SnapDrive overview
• What SnapDrive does
• What SnapDrive does not do
• Recommendations for using SnapDrive
• SnapDrive components
• SnapDrive licensing
• How LUNs work
  • How the storage system interacts with the LUN
  • How Windows hosts interact with a LUN
  • LUN capabilities and limitations
  • Protocols for LUN access
  • How data is accessed from LUNs
• Disk allocation considerations
  • RAID group configuration
  • Hot spare disks
  • How many hot spares you should have
  • How aggregates work
• How volume space is used
  • Volume size rules
• Volume and storage system options set by SnapDrive
• What space reservation is
• Disk space usage with space reservation
• What fractional reserve is
• SnapDrive for Windows GUI icon descriptions
• Features added in SnapDrive 6.3 for Windows
• Features supported
• Support for VMDKs in NFS and VMFS datastores
• SnapDrive VMDK support limitations
• Support for space reclamation in VMDK files in NFS datastores
• SnapDrive support in Windows Server 2008 Server Core
  • Server Core limitations
  • Requirements for managing SnapDrive on Windows Server Core systems
• Support for dynamically adding and removing pass-through disks on Hyper-V virtual machines
  • Hyper-V pass-through disk support limitations
• Support for restoring data at the file level
• Support for storage system access control
  • Using storage system access control
• Support for ESX iSCSI initiators with SnapDrive for Windows
  • ESX iSCSI initiator limitations
• SnapDrive changes with MMC 3.0
  • Using MMC 3.0 Action pane
  • Error messages in MMC 3.0
• MultiStore support
• HTTP and HTTPS transport protocol support
  • Adding storage system capabilities for HTTP users
• IPv6 support
• SnapVault support
• VMware support
  • VMware-related limitations
  • Enabling and disabling vCenter or ESX logon from SnapDrive MMC
  • Minimum vCenter permissions required for SnapDrive operations
  • VMware VMotion support
• GPT partition support
• LUN boot disk (SAN booting) support
• Cluster support
  • Microsoft clusters on ESX reference
  • Support for Microsoft cluster shared volumes
  • Support for Microsoft clusters using FC RDM LUNs
    • Microsoft cluster support limitations using FC RDM LUNs
• Overview of installing or upgrading SnapDrive
• Preparing to install or upgrade SnapDrive for Windows
• Documents to read before installing SnapDrive
• Considerations for determining SnapDrive configurations
• Preparing hosts for SnapDrive
  • Minimum SnapDrive host requirements
  • Minimum SnapDrive requirements for VMware ESX Guest OS
  • Determining whether HBA or MPIO components are installed
• Preparing storage systems for SnapDrive
  • Minimum SnapDrive storage system requirements
  • Determining which licenses are enabled on a storage system
  • Preparing a volume for SnapDrive
    • Considerations for preparing a SnapDrive volume
• Configuring access for SnapDrive
  • SnapDrive service account requirements
  • When pass-through authentication might be required
  • Configuring SnapDrive pass-through authentication
  • User account requirements for SnapDrive Web services
• Preparing to upgrade SnapDrive
• Installing or upgrading SnapDrive
• Installing or upgrading the FC or iSCSI components
  • Installing or Upgrading the iSCSI Software Initiator
• Installing or upgrading the SnapDrive components
• Preparing to install SnapDrive on Windows Server 2008 Server Core
  • Enabling remote administration on the Server Core system
  • Renaming the Server Core system
  • Joining the Server Core system to a domain
  • Disabling Windows Server Core firewall
  • Installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package on the Server Core system
  • Installing .NET Framework on Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core
• Installing SnapDrive on Windows Server 2008 Server Core
• Performing unattended SnapDrive installations
• Enabling SnapDrive to communicate through the Windows Firewall
• Managing SnapDrive
• Managing host-side SnapDrive licenses
• Enabling SnapDrive notification settings
• Setting a preferred IP address
• Stopping and starting the SnapDrive service
• Adding and removing initiators with SnapDrive
• Administering SnapDrive remotely
  • Adding a remote SnapDrive instance
  • Deleting a remote SnapDrive instance
  • Managing SnapDrive remotely using Connect to another computer
• Enabling RBAC for use with SnapDrive for Windows
• Using role-based access control (RBAC) with DataFabric Manager server
• Enabling RBAC on the storage system
• Configuring SnapDrive for Windows to use RBAC
• Creating SnapDrive user roles on DataFabric Manager server
• Assigning roles to SnapDrive users on DataFabric Manager server
• Managing iSCSI sessions
• iSCSI software initiator node naming standards
• Establishing an iSCSI session to a target
  • How SnapDrive uses CHAP authentication
• Disconnecting an iSCSI target from a Windows host
• Disconnecting a session to an iSCSI target
• Examining details of an iSCSI session
• Creating LUNs
• Rules for creating LUNs
• About volume mount points
• Creating a dedicated LUN
• Creating a shared LUN
• Creating a LUN as a quorum on a Windows 2003 cluster
• Windows Server 2008 failover cluster support
• Configuring a Windows Server 2008 failover cluster witness disk
• Creating an RDM LUN on a guest OS
• Creating a highly available Hyper-V virtual machine using SnapDrive
• Managing LUNs
• Guidelines for connecting LUNs
• Connecting to a LUN
• Guideline for managing RDM LUNs not created in SnapDrive
• Connecting to an RDM LUN on a guest OS
• Making drive letter or path modifications to a LUN
  • Adding, removing, or changing a drive letter or path for an existing LUN
  • Moving a mount point with Windows Explorer
• Guidelines for disconnecting or deleting LUNs
• Disconnecting a LUN
• Deleting a LUN
• Deleting folders within volume mount points
• Guidelines for resizing disks
• Resizing a disk
• Resizing a quorum disk
• Managing LUNs not created in SnapDrive
  • Guidelines for renaming LUNs
• Managing space on storage system volumes
• What SnapDrive fractional space reservation monitoring does
• Configuring space reservation monitoring
• Using the storage access control tool to enable thinly provisioned LUNs
• What Space Reclaimer does
  • Guidelines for using Space Reclaimer
  • Starting Space Reclaimer
  • Stopping Space Reclaimer manually
  • Reasons for SnapDrive to automatically stop Space Reclaimer
• Managing Snapshot copies
• Reasons for creating Snapshot copies
• Restrictions on Snapshot copy creation
• Creating a Snapshot copy
• Scheduling Snapshot copies
• About using FlexClone volumes in SnapDrive
  • Prerequisites for using FlexClone volumes with SnapDrive
  • About read/write connections
• Snapshot copy cautions
• Connecting to a LUN in a Snapshot copy
• How LUN restoration from Snapshot copies works
  • About the Data ONTAP LUN clone split (rapid LUN restore) feature
  • Restoring a LUN from a Snapshot copy
  • Checking LUN restore status
  • About volume-based Snapshot copy restoration with SnapDrive
• Deleting a Snapshot copy
  • Problems deleting Snapshot copies due to busy snapshot error
• Overview of archiving and restoring Snapshot copies
• Using SnapVault with SnapDrive
• Considerations for using SnapVault
• Initiating SnapVault backups from SnapDrive
• SnapDrive integration with Protection Manager
• How SnapDrive integrates with Protection Manager
• Dataset concepts
• Understanding the Volume Shadow Copy Service
• Overview of VSS
• SnapDrive VSS requirements
• Typical VSS backup process
• Troubleshooting the VSS Hardware Provider
  • Viewing installed VSS providers
  • Verifying that the VSS Hardware Provider was used successfully
  • Verifying your VSS configuration
• SAN booting with SnapDrive
• What SAN booting is
• How SnapDrive supports SAN booting
• Using SnapMirror with SnapDrive for Windows
• SnapMirror overview
• Types of SnapMirror replication
  • How SnapDrive manages rolling Snapshot copies
  • How rolling Snapshot copies are named
• Requirements for using SnapMirror with SnapDrive
• Initiating replication manually
• Connecting to a LUN in a mirrored destination volume
• Restoring a volume on a SnapMirror destination
• Recovering a cluster from shared LUNs on a SnapMirror destination
  • Configuring the cluster service to start manually
  • Creating a temporary quorum disk
  • Starting the cluster service with the -fixquorum option
  • Connecting to the new quorum disk
  • Connecting to a shared LUN on the SnapMirror destination volume
• Unattended SnapDrive installation reference
• SnapDrive command line installation syntax
• SnapDrive command line installation switches
• SnapDrive unattended installation examples
• Typical SnapDrive configurations
• SnapDrive iSCSI configurations
  • Single host direct-attached to a single storage system using iSCSI
  • Single host attached to a single storage system through a GbE switch
  • Single host attached to a single storage system through a dedicated switch
  • Windows cluster connected to a storage system cluster through a dedicated GbE switch
• SnapDrive FC configurations
  • Single host direct-attached to a single storage system using FC
  • Single host attached to a single storage system through an FC switch
  • Windows cluster attached to a storage system active/active configuration through an FC switch
• SnapDrive MPIO configurations
  • Single host direct-attached to a single storage system using MPIO
  • Windows cluster attached to a storage system active/active configuration through a GbE switch using MPIO
  • Windows cluster attached to a storage system active/active configuration through an FC switch using MPIO
• Storage system access control reference
• Storage system access control operations list
• Storage system access control roles
• Storage system access control commands
• Storage system access control command examples
• SnapDrive for Windows to DataFabric Manager role mappings
• SnapDrive command-line reference
• About sdcli commands
  • Executing sdcli commands
  • Common command switches
• Configuration commands
  • The sysconfig list command
• License commands
  • The license set command
  • The license list command
  • The license remove command
• Initiator group management commands
  • The igroup list command
  • The igroup create command
  • The igroup rename command
  • The igroup delete command
• Fractional space reservation monitoring commands
  • The spacemon list command
  • The spacemon set command
  • The spacemon snap_delta command
  • The spacemon snap_reclaimable command
  • The spacemon vol_info command
  • The spacemon delete command
• SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure commands
  • The smvi_config list command
  • The smvi_config set command
  • The smvi_config delete command
• Space reclamation commands
  • The spacereclaimer start command
  • The spacereclaimer stop command
  • The spacereclaimer analyze command
  • The spacereclaimer status command
• Preferred IP address commands
  • The preferredIP set command
  • The preferredIP list command
  • The preferredIP delete command
• iSCSI connection commands
  • The iscsi_target disconnect command
  • The iscsi_target list command
• iSCSI initiator commands
  • The iscsi_initiator list command
  • The iscsi_initiator establish_session command
  • The iscsi_initiator terminate_session command
• LUN commands
  • The disk create command
  • The disk connect command
  • The disk delete command
  • The disk disconnect command
  • The disk resize command
  • The disk expand command
  • The disk add_initiator command
  • The disk remove_initiator command
  • The disk list command
  • The disk add_mount command
  • The disk remove_mount command
• Snapshot copy commands
  • The snap create command
  • The snap delete command
  • The snap list command
  • The snap mirror_list command
  • The snap mount command
  • The snap rename command
  • The snap restore command
  • The snap unmount command
  • The snap update_mirror command
  • The snap restore_volume_check command
  • The snap restore_volume command
• SnapVault commands
  • The snapvault verify_configuration command
  • The snapvault snapshot_rename command
  • The snapvault snapshot_delete command
  • The snapvault archive command
  • The snapvault relationship_status command
  • The snapvault snap_list command
• DataFabric Manager commands
  • The dfm_config list command
  • The dfm_config set command
  • The dfm_config delete command
  • The dfm_config rbaccache command
• Transport protocol commands
  • The transport_protocol list command
  • The transport_protocol set command
  • The transport_protocol delete command
• Virtual server commands
  • The vsconfig list command
  • The vsconfig set command
  • The vsconfig dslist command
  • The vsconfig delete command