topic Version Flexible SnapMirror Limitation in ONTAP Discussions

Version Flexible SnapMirror Limitation

TMADOCTHOMAS — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:13:24 GMT

I am replicating content from an OnTAP Select 9.5P6 instance to a physical OnTAP 9.3P15 system. I would like to upgrade to OnTAP Select OS to 9.6P7, however I seem to recall reading somewhere that there's a limitation in "version-flexible" snapmirror jobs. Specifically, I thought I read somewhere that the version-flexible only works when separated by two versions. In this example, we're between 9.3 and 9.5 so we're good, but I'm wondering if snapmirror will break if I got to 9.6. Any ideas? (NOTE: I cannot upgrade the destination above 9.3 at the moment).

Re: Version Flexible SnapMirror Limitation

SpindleNinja — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 18:27:41 GMT

have you seen this matrix?

https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.netapp.doc.pow-dap%2FGUID-0810D764-4CEA-4683-8280-032433B1886B.html

Re: Version Flexible SnapMirror Limitation

TMADOCTHOMAS — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 18:58:16 GMT

Wow that was quick @SpindleNinja ! No I had not seen that, it is very helpful! Looks like my answer is - yes I can upgrade to 9.6, but I will have to leapfrog from 9.3 to 9.5 when I upgrade 9.3 since 9.4 won't work with 9.6.

Re: Version Flexible SnapMirror Limitation

SpindleNinja — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 20:12:02 GMT

No problem. I have that bookmarked 🙂