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Is the temporary datastore, named by appending the original datastore name with numbers, mounted during SCV Guest File Restore for restore purpose?

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Applies to

  • SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere (SCV)
  • ONTAP 9
  • Guest File Restore

Answer

  • Yes, the datastore named like <original datastore>-<yyyyddhhmmssxxx> is temporary datastore for SCV Guest File Restore.
  • During Guest File Restore, clone is created and it is mounted as a datastore. 

Example: 

Original datastore:  nfs1

Temporary datastore: nfs1-20250218152435432

Additional Information

How restore operations are performed

 

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