topic Snapshots as Previous Versions Windows LUN in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Snapshots-as-Previous-Versions-Windows-LUN/m-p/80437#M18778 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello and thanks in advance for your attention.</P><P></P><P>I am wondering if it is possible to present the snapshots created on a LUN to that server's previous versions tab? Similar to how it works in CIFS.</P><P></P><P>I have a VM hosted by ESX 4.1, with a VMDK on an iSCSI datastore. Is there any way I can present the snapshots as "Previous Versions"? I am not glued to iSCSI/VMFS, if this is possible with NFS I am open to suggestions. If this is possible in anyway I am interested.</P><P></P><P>I want to be able to share folders on this LUN and have specific users with access to restore. So I don't have to do it myself, or create a LUN just for shadow copies. Plus, MS is limited to 64 versions where Netapp can have 255.</P><P></P><P>Thank you </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:47:57 GMT terryzolinski 2025-06-05T06:47:57Z Snapshots as Previous Versions Windows LUN https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Snapshots-as-Previous-Versions-Windows-LUN/m-p/80437#M18778 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello and thanks in advance for your attention.</P><P></P><P>I am wondering if it is possible to present the snapshots created on a LUN to that server's previous versions tab? Similar to how it works in CIFS.</P><P></P><P>I have a VM hosted by ESX 4.1, with a VMDK on an iSCSI datastore. Is there any way I can present the snapshots as "Previous Versions"? I am not glued to iSCSI/VMFS, if this is possible with NFS I am open to suggestions. If this is possible in anyway I am interested.</P><P></P><P>I want to be able to share folders on this LUN and have specific users with access to restore. So I don't have to do it myself, or create a LUN just for shadow copies. Plus, MS is limited to 64 versions where Netapp can have 255.</P><P></P><P>Thank you </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:47:57 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Snapshots-as-Previous-Versions-Windows-LUN/m-p/80437#M18778 terryzolinski 2025-06-05T06:47:57Z Snapshots as Previous Versions Windows LUN https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Snapshots-as-Previous-Versions-Windows-LUN/m-p/80441#M18780 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Sent this off to my consultant, this is not possible.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:07:43 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Snapshots-as-Previous-Versions-Windows-LUN/m-p/80441#M18780 terryzolinski 2011-08-24T21:07:43Z