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NetApp unified SRA requires NAS and SAN RBAC
Rawlinson Rivera blogged about a known issue with the 1.4.3 version of the NetApp SRA a while back. If you’re not familiar, this version marries the seperate NAS and SAN versions that previously existed. If you read through the comments you’ll discover that the documented issue occurs in NFS only environments where no iSCSI or FCP LUNs exist. As explained in the NetApp knowledgebase article (NOW access required), the workaround is to create a dummy VMware igroup:
igroup create -i -t vmware sra_dummy_igroup
After recently implementing the workaround, we continued to receive a LUN discovery error until we finally remembered that the filer permissions required for the older NAS and SAN SRAs were different. During our original setup, we had configured role based access control with the requirements for NAS only. Unfortunately, to complete a successful discovery with the new unified SRA, it appears that RBAC must now include the permissions for both NAS and SAN, even if you’re not using one or the other. Luckily for us, a quick look back at the NetApp SRA RBAC rights knowledgebase article (NOW access required) got us back on track.