topic Re: Snapdrive for Oracle Split off Cloned Database in Data Protection

Snapdrive for Oracle Split off Cloned Database

darraghos — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:44:28 GMT

Using Snapcentre for Oracle 3.4.1 P4 on Windows 2008 R2 (don't ask why! 🙂 ). Obviously SMO works by creating flex-clones in the underlying storage then presenting back to the OS as a new instance of oracle. It was indicated to me though that these clones of the DB could not be split out into a new standalone DB like you would when you split a flexclone off from it's parent.

Is that the case or can SMO clones be split?

Re: Snapdrive for Oracle Split off Cloned Database

hmoubara — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 02:52:46 GMT

Hello,

Snapcenter should be capable of creating a clone and splitting it as needed. You can review the below documentation for more details:

https://docs.netapp.com/ocsc-43/topic/com.netapp.doc.ocsc-dpg-oracle/GUID-FF5103CA-6808-4FDE-BBC5-F32886D98F3F.html

Thanks

Re: Snapdrive for Oracle Split off Cloned Database

darraghos — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 11:41:26 GMT

Thanks @hmoubara . Does SMO have this capability also?

Re: Snapdrive for Oracle Split off Cloned Database

hmoubara — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 11:50:51 GMT

Yes it does

Re: Snapdrive for Oracle Split off Cloned Database

darraghos — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 11:56:36 GMT

Actually, as per this SMO splitting off a clone not supported on Windows 😐