NetApp Snap Creator Introduction Tutorial

NetApp Snap Creator:

Snap Creator is a backup and recovery software solution that enables you to integrate Snapshot technology with any application that is not supported by SnapManager products.

Snap Creator is platform and operating system independent. It provides application integration through plug-ins that enable it to support any application on a storage system. Snap Creator uses the plug-ins to handle quiesce and unquiesce actions for a given application or database.

Snap Creator supports application plug-ins for Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Sybase ASE (Sybase), Lotus Domino (Domino), SnapManager for Microsoft SQL Server, SnapManager for Microsoft Exchange, MaxDB, VMware (vSphere and vCloud Director), Red Hat KVM, and Citrix Xen. Additional application plug-ins are available through the Snap Creator Community.

Snap Creator provides a management interface for Snapshot technology, SnapVault, Open Systems SnapVault, SnapMirror, Protection Manager, Operations Manager, and FlexClone technology.

Snap Creator Architecture:

Snap Creator consists of a server and an agent layer. The GUI, configuration, and CLI reside in the server. The server sends quiesce or unquiesce operations to a given database by using the agent, which runs remotely or locally.

The communication layer from the agent to the server is Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) over HTTP.

Download the NetApp Snap Creator Software from NOW website.

Install the NetApp Snap Creator (Server) software in windows 2003/2008 server.

Access the Snap Creator using server ipaddress or hostname with port number 8080.

Kindly check the Snap Creator service is up and running.

While installation, it could prompt you to create user account to login.

Access Snap Creator with your hostname or ipaddress.

http://hostname:8080

It will prompt you to authenticate the privileged user account.

Once it authenticated successfully, it will open the dash board.

It has 3 main sections:

1. Management

2. Data

3. Reports

In Management Tab, you can create new backup configuration.

Add a new profile.

Create a new configuration.

New Configuration Wizard.

It prompts you to give the new config name and authentication type.

It prompts you select which type  of plug-in 

The following plugin's are available.

1. Application Plugin 

2. Virtualization Plugin

3. Community Plugin

4. None.

Select your transport type.

http or https.

Storage Controller Information like ipaddress, username and password.

Automatically it discovers the volumes and clone information.

Now you can configure the snap and retention details.

Configure your Snap mirror and Snap Vault information.

Data Protection volumes.

Configuration Summary.

Data volumes.

Listing the Snapshots.

Listing Volume Clone information.

you can schedule the tasks.

Tasks .

HP COMMAND VIEW EVA TUTORIAL

HP COMMAND VIEW EVA 5000 Series:

HP EVA 5000 Storage Appliance Introduction:


To access the HP EVA 5000 Storage Appliance , access through the Command view EVA.

Type your access URL.
Provide the username and password.

Now you are getting the storage main page which you can discover your devices and configure your devices.

You can monitor your storage through this Tools tab.

You can click the devices tab, then you can discover, configure and manage devices in the storage system.

If you click command view , you can see the command view main page.

The new storage system is uninitialized now. We need to initialize first.

You press the initialize button, then your storage system start to initialize.

If you go for an initialization, then you will lose your existing data in the disks.

Set the storage name and number of disks.

Set the number of disks fail over.

Storage initialization completed successfully.

Now you can see the properties of the storage.

The following menus are available to configure:

Virtual Disk
Host
Disk Group
Data Replication
Hardware


Using these menus, we can create a virtual disk, add a host and manage hardware.

Using hardware menu you can see the hardware properties.

Expand your hardware(RACK1), you can see the controller enclosure and disk enclosures.

Controller Enclosure which has the two controller and their properties.
Controller A is active and good status.

In host ports tab, you can see the host port properties.

You can see the device ports properties in the device port tab.

Enclosure properties like temperature, blower, cache and power supplies.

Disk Enclosure tab, we man monitor power, cooling and I/O Communication properties.

You can check the power supply status using Power tab.

You can check the cooling status, by using Cooling Tab.

To check the I/O Communications, press I/O comm Tab.

To see the Disk Shelf Bay Details.

To list Disk bay and Disk drive details.

Creating Virtual Disks:

To see the vdisk folder Properties.

Creating a new vdisk folder with the name of DBSETHIL.

Adding hosts :

Specify the host information

Select the WWN of your host.
Select the host Operating System

Add a comment (Optional) then finish. This process will add the host to the HP EVA.

To list the Host Properties.

Creating Virtual Disk and RAID Level.

Select the size of the LUN and select the host to Map and Mask.

Now the vdisk successfully Created.

To see the vdisk properties and data replication.

Using this tab you can create snapshots and snapclones.

To list the available hosts.