SME requires SnapDrive for
quiesce\snapshot functionality. SMBR technically does not if purchased
directly from ONTRACK (at least at some point in the past, the NetApp version
required connectivity to a LUN on a Filer via API calls – which I’m
under the impression was performed by SnapDrive).
Typically, the issue with SnapDrive
connecting to LUNs created manually is with the mapping – SnapDrive looks
for mapping done with a ‘viaRPC’ in front of the igroup names,
which is not there if done manually. Forcibly unmapping via filerview and
remapping via SnapDrive is typically sufficient to fix this.
That said, I have used neither 2008 nor
SnapDrive 6, so things may have changed quite drastically…
FWIW, I’ve used snapdrive
extensively for years and it’s been a huge time saver and life saver for me.
Glenn
From:
owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008
10:44 PM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Exchange iscsi luns and
Snapmanager/SMBR without snapdrive
asking the community while i wait on the official
netapp answer.
are either Snapmanager for Exchange or the Single Mailbox Restore products
absolutely tied to or unable to function completely if snapdrive is not
present?
in short, this "easy to use" gui tool has wasted enough of our time
already and I do not need anything other than the ontap command line and about
15 minutes to provision the proper igroups and luns requested by our Exchange
admins and another minute to bring them up via the microsoft iscsi interface
format them and put them under the microsoft cluster services control.
one last tidbit, although assured this would work fine, any luns that were
created from the filer were completely unable to be seen, utilized, or managed
via snapdrive. they had to be deleted and provisioned through the snapdrive
interface which is not familiar to us and not behaving as shown to us by
netapp. even support seemed to be perplexed although it was indicated
that perhaps this was due to the servers being 2008 Server and the snapdrive
version 6.
anyhow im only just clarifying if there is any fundamental dependency between
snapdrive and the exchange snapshot tools.
:)
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Daniel Leeds
Manager, Storage Operations
Edmunds, Inc.
310-309-4999 desk
310-430-0536 cell