topic How to enable FlexClone in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/How-to-enable-FlexClone/m-p/68795#M16048 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We are considering purchasing a flexclone license to bring up a test site, but will need to use it very quickly for it to be worth it for us.&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>Is enabling FlexClone as easy as installing a license, and then all the commands are ready to go immediately?&nbsp; Or is there some sort of implementation process of converting volumes to a flexclone-able format, etc.?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:57:38 GMT aaronhager 2025-06-05T06:57:38Z How to enable FlexClone https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/How-to-enable-FlexClone/m-p/68795#M16048 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We are considering purchasing a flexclone license to bring up a test site, but will need to use it very quickly for it to be worth it for us.&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>Is enabling FlexClone as easy as installing a license, and then all the commands are ready to go immediately?&nbsp; Or is there some sort of implementation process of converting volumes to a flexclone-able format, etc.?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:57:38 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/How-to-enable-FlexClone/m-p/68795#M16048 aaronhager 2025-06-05T06:57:38Z Re: How to enable FlexClone https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/How-to-enable-FlexClone/m-p/68800#M16050 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Install the license.</P><P></P><P>Then use vol clone create.</P><P></P><P>It is already there.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:10:00 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/How-to-enable-FlexClone/m-p/68800#M16050 rwelshman 2011-03-28T18:10:00Z Re: How to enable FlexClone https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/How-to-enable-FlexClone/m-p/68807#M16053 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yea, this was very easy to implement:&nbsp; "license add [license#]" - done.</P><P></P><P>Since we are using this on a disaster recovery/development environment, I am going to be cloning SnapMirror destination volumes.&nbsp; It appears that FlexClone attempts to create a snapshot, if one is not specified, when creating the cloned volume.&nbsp; This is a great feature, but just keep in mind that you cannot create new snapshots directly on the (read-only) destination volumes.&nbsp; So you have to have already created a snapshot and replicated it over to the volume, and then specify the snapshot when cloning the LUN.&nbsp; Just a little tidbit, if anyone is interested.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:23:43 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/How-to-enable-FlexClone/m-p/68807#M16053 aaronhager 2011-04-07T17:23:43Z