https://community.netapp.com/t5/General-Discussion/Snapshot-copies-showing-in-different-volumes/m-p/141698#M96 <P>Recently we are seeing snapshot copies in different volumes, why is it happening anyone has came across something like this and is there a way we can fix this. Using 7mode, SMVI is used for datastore level backup.</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:29:00 GMT S-Sahu 2025-06-04T13:29:00Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/General-Discussion/Snapshot-copies-showing-in-different-volumes/m-p/141698#M96 <P>Recently we are seeing snapshot copies in different volumes, why is it happening anyone has came across something like this and is there a way we can fix this. Using 7mode, SMVI is used for datastore level backup.</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:29:00 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/General-Discussion/Snapshot-copies-showing-in-different-volumes/m-p/141698#M96 S-Sahu 2025-06-04T13:29:00Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/General-Discussion/Snapshot-copies-showing-in-different-volumes/m-p/141942#M104 <P>you have a VM that has disks in multiple datastores.&nbsp; So SMVI snaps all the volumes that contain these disks. See the docs for setting up spanned entity exclusion (or move VM disks)</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 07 Aug 2018 19:18:41 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/General-Discussion/Snapshot-copies-showing-in-different-volumes/m-p/141942#M104 J_curl 2018-08-07T19:18:41Z