NetApp Best Practice and independent labels

Hi, Best practices for VMware NetApp recommends, transitional and temporary data such as comments

pagefile operating system, temporary files and swap files, must be moved to another disk virtual one

different data store as snapshots of this type of data can consume a large amount of storage in a very short time



high time due to the rate of change (that is, to create a data store dedicated to transitional and temporary for all VMS data without other types of data or VMDK residing on it).

NetApp recommends also configure the VMDK residing in these stores data as "Independent persistent" disks in vCenter. Once configured, the transitional and temporary data VMDK will be excluded from the VMware vCenter snapshot and copy snapshot of NetApp initiated by SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure.

I would like to understand the impact of this best practice - can anyone advise on the following:

  • If the above is implemented:

    • Snapshots will work via vcenter?

    • Snapshots will work via the Netapp Snapmanager tool?

    • The snapsot includes all of VM disks? If this is not the case, what is the consequence of not having the whole picture of the VM?

    • The snapshot of vcenter can restore ok?

    • Netapp snapshot can restore ok?

  • What impact the foregoing has on the process of return if using a backup product that relies on snapshot technology?

Thank you





Hi Joe

These recommendations is purely to save storage space when the replication or backup.

For example, you can move your *.vswap (VM swap file) file to a different data store. NetBackup can do instant IVMS of the warehouses of data and with this configuration, you can exclude this particular data store

This is also true if you create a data store dedicated for OS Swap files, mark independent so that vCenter not relieve these VMDK.

I did a project with NetApp on boxes of SAP production

We moved all the files in *.vswap to warehouses of data created and dedicated RDM for the OS Swap locations

We actually used the SnapDrive one NetApp technology to suspend the DB SQL on the ROW before the ROW is broken, but I won't go into too much detail

To answer your questions (see the comments in the quote)

joeflint wrote:

  • If the above is implemented:
    • Snapshots will work via vcenter? -Yes it will be - independent drive gets ignored
    • Snapshots will work via the Netapp Snapmanager tool? -Yes it will be - snaps the entire data store/LUN
    • The snapsot includes all of VM disks? If this is not the case, what is the consequence of not having the whole picture of the VM? -No. - *.vswap file is created when the VM is started (no need to backup)

-OS Swap VMDK of location must be re-created in the case of restoration. WIndows will be

always Prime if the Swap disk is missing, and you specify the new location of swap.

  • What impact the foregoing has on the process of return if using a backup product that relies on snapshot technology? -These backup products use vCenter snapshots and because the vCenter snapshots works 100% it shouldn't be a problem.

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