NetApp VSC 4.1 Series - Introduction

The following 7 blog posts make up an introduction to/crash course on the excellent NetApp Virtual Storage Console version 4.1 for VMware with a focus on Provisioning, Backup, and Recovery.

Contents:

NetApp VSC 4.1 Series - Part 1: How to Provision an NFS Datastore

NetApp VSC 4.1 Series - Part 2: How to Create Rapid Clones

NetApp VSC 4.1 Series - Part 3: How to Backup

NetApp VSC 4.1 Series - Part 4: How to Restore a VM

NetApp VSC 4.1 Series - Part 5: How to Restore Datastore Contents

NetApp VSC 4.1 Series - Part 6: How to Roll-Back to a Datastore Snapshot

NetApp VSC 4.1 Series - Part 7: Single File Restore

Here we are using NFS, demo-ing the NetApp Virtual Storage Console 4.1 for VMware, with Data ONTAP 8.1.2 7-Mode controllers (SIM), VMware ESXi 5.1 hosts, VMware vCenter 5.1, and random test VMs all in a nested lab environment. I plan to revisit at a later date (at least in part) for Clustered ONTAP.