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Creating a Snapshot with volume creation

mwolosch — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:07:36 GMT

Hello all,

When creating a workflow for volume creation how do you enable that volume to take a snapshot? I figured if you modified the workflow and made sure that under the attributes that the snapshot_enabled field is set to true that would work. I have this enabled, but I don't see the snapshot.

Thank you

Michael

Re: Creating a Snapshot with volume creation

hill — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:39:44 GMT

Hi Michael,

I'm hoping I'll answer you effectively, but to do that I have to make a main assumption... which is that you're talking about a 7-mode workflow. I have to also ask because I'm honestly not remembering any 'snapshot_enabled' attribute. If you have a screenshot, that will help.

For 7-mode:

you need to make sure you have no volume options set like 'nosnap on' are not there.
you would need to supply some 'snap_sched_options'... if you have this and the value is '0 0 0' then effectively the hourly, daily, and weekly snapshots are turned off. This needs to be set to the applicable number of hourly, dailiy and weekly snapshots you would like to retain.

for clusterd Data ONTAP:

you would need to ensure the applicable snapshot_policy is applied to the volume
There are a couple WFA sample workflows that can help to guide you... I'd recomment "Create a Cluster-Mode NFS Volume"

Not certain that this helps you, but I hope it does.

Best,

Kevin.

Creating a Snapshot with volume creation

mwolosch — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:36:06 GMT

Hello Kevin,

Sorry for the delay. This is for c-mode.

When I went into the workflow, I had unchecked the option for only showing the attribute for cm which gave me the option for enabling the snapshot. I am going through the workflow for creating the a c-mode nfs volume. I do have the workflow exported out and have uploaded it to this discussion. I also have included the snapshot-policy from this cluster.

TASPMONAVLS01::> snapshot policy show

Number Of Is

Name Schedules Enabled Comment

----------------- ---------- ------- -----------------------------------------

30Min 2 true every 30 min with daily snap retention

Schedule: 30min Count: 48 Prefix: 30min

H23:05 30 H23:05

Daily-H00-05 1 true 5 min after midnight

Schedule: H00:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H00:05

Daily-H01-05 1 true -

Schedule: H01:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H01:05

Daily-H02-05 1 true -

Schedule: H02:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H02:05

Daily-H03-05 1 true -

Schedule: H03:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H03:05

Daily-H04-05 1 true -

Schedule: H04:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H04:05

Daily-H05-05 1 true -

Schedule: H05:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H05:05

Daily-H06-05 1 true -

Schedule: H06:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H06:05

Daily-H07-05 1 true -

Schedule: H07:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H07:05

Daily-H08-05 1 true -

Schedule: H08:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H08:05

Daily-H09-05 1 true -

Schedule: H09:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H09:05

Number Of Is

Name Schedules Enabled Comment

----------------- ---------- ------- -----------------------------------------

Daily-H10-05 1 true -

Schedule: H10:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H10:05

Daily-H11-05 1 true -

Schedule: H11:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H11:05

Daily-H12-05 1 true -

Schedule: H12:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H12:05

Daily-H13-05 1 true -

Schedule: H13:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H13:05

Daily-H14-05 1 true -

Schedule: H14:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H14:05

Daily-H15-05 1 true -

Schedule: H15:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H15:05

Daily-H16-05 1 true -

Schedule: H16:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H16:05

Daily-H17-05 1 true -

Schedule: H17:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H17:05

Daily-H18-05 1 true -

Schedule: H18:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H18:05

Daily-H19-05 1 true -

Schedule: H19:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H19:05

Daily-H20-05 1 true -

Schedule: H20:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H20:05

Number Of Is

Name Schedules Enabled Comment

----------------- ---------- ------- -----------------------------------------

Daily-H21-05 1 true -

Schedule: H21:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H21:05

Daily-H22-05 1 true -

Schedule: H22:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H22:05

Daily-H23-05 1 true -

Schedule: H23:05 Count: 30 Prefix: H23:05

NP-00 1 true -

Schedule: H00:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H00:05

NP-01 1 true -

Schedule: H01:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H01:05

NP-02 1 true -

Schedule: H02:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H02:05

NP-03 1 true -

Schedule: H03:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H03:05

NP-04 1 true -

Schedule: H04:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H04:05

NP-05 1 true -

Schedule: H05:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H05:05

NP-06 1 true -

Schedule: H06:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H06:05

NP-07 1 true -

Schedule: H07:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H07:05

Number Of Is

Name Schedules Enabled Comment

----------------- ---------- ------- -----------------------------------------

NP-08 1 true -

Schedule: H08:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H08:05

NP-09 1 true -

Schedule: H09:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H09:05

NP-10 1 true -

Schedule: H10:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H10:05

NP-11 1 true -

Schedule: H11:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H11:05

NP-12 1 true -

Schedule: H12:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H12:05

NP-13 1 true -

Schedule: H13:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H13:05

NP-14 1 true -

Schedule: H14:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H14:05

NP-15 1 true -

Schedule: H15:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H15:05

NP-16 1 true -

Schedule: H16:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H16:05

NP-17 1 true -

Schedule: H17:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H17:05

NP-18 1 true -

Schedule: H18:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H18:05

Number Of Is

Name Schedules Enabled Comment

----------------- ---------- ------- -----------------------------------------

NP-19 1 true -

Schedule: H19:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H19:05

NP-20 1 true -

Schedule: H20:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H20:05

NP-21 1 true -

Schedule: H21:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H21:05

NP-22 1 true -

Schedule: H22:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H22:05

NP-23 1 true -

Schedule: H23:05 Count: 14 Prefix: H23:05

default 3 false Default policy with hourly, daily & weekly schedules.

Schedule: hourly Count: 6 Prefix: hourly

daily 2 daily

weekly 2 weekly

none 0 false Policy for no automatic snapshots.

Schedule: - Count: - Prefix: -

Re: Creating a Snapshot with volume creation

hill — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:52:34 GMT

Hi Michael,

Since you're on the Cluster management CLI, can you also get the output for a " TASPMONAVLS01::> show -volume <volume_name>-instance " command and identify what the 'snapshot_policy' is set to?.

I did import your .dar file. I'm assuming you were playing with the "Create a Cluster-Mode NFS Volume - copy" workflow as it was the one last modified. I see there that you do NOT specify which snapshot_policy to use. You have to. You DO specify an export_policy, but that is for your NFS Export in this case.

Screenshot:

this is where you would specify one of the snapshot_policies to use. Since it is a reference variable, you would likely have to use a NO-OP command prior to the volume to define which snapshot_policy to use, this is where you could either use a filter/finder to find your export policy by either providing one of the above snapshot_policy names, or making it a user input variable.

I hope this more acurately identifies the information you were looking for.

Best,

Kevin.

Creating a Snapshot with volume creation

mwolosch — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:53:39 GMT

Thanks Kevin for this information. I was not very clear on what I was doing. I was working on the workflow called cluster mode creation with snapshot and snapmirror. I was looking at the volume creation with nfs as an example. We are not using this for NFS or CIFS right now. This is just a basic volume creation and then snapmirroring over to the remote cluster. Here is the output for the volume show CHHWVCPDI02 -instance output:

TASPMONAVLS01::> volume show CHHWVCPDI02 -instance

Vserver Name: lsvs001

Volume Name: CHHWVCPDI02

Aggregate Name: aggr2_node01_LS4XPT315

Volume Size: 3.56TB

Volume Data Set ID: 1054

Volume Master Data Set ID: 2147484702

Volume State: online

Volume Type: RW

Volume Style: flex

Is Cluster-Mode Volume: true

Is Constituent Volume: false

Export Policy: default

User ID: 0

Group ID: 1

Security Style: unix

UNIX Permissions: ---rwx------

Junction Path: -

Junction Path Source: -

Junction Active: -

Junction Parent Volume: -

Comment:

Available Size: 3.56TB

Total User-Visible Size: 3.56TB

Used Size: 289.5MB

Used Percentage: 0%

Autosize Enabled (for flexvols only): true

Maximum Autosize (for flexvols only): 4.28TB

Autosize Increment (for flexvols only): 182.5GB

Total Files (for user-visible data): 31876689

Files Used (for user-visible data): 116

Space Guarantee Style: volume

Space Guarantee in Effect: true

Space Reserved for Snapshots: 0%

Snapshot Reserve Used: 0%

Snapshot Policy: Daily-H17-05

Creation Time: Wed Feb 27 00:28:56 2013

Clone Volume: false

Anti-Virus On-Access Policy: default

NVFAIL Option: on

Is File System Size Fixed: false

Extent Option: off

Reserved Space for Overwrites: 0B

Fractional Reserve: 0%

Snapshot Cloning Dependency: off

Primary Space Management Strategy: volume_grow

Read Reallocation Option: off

Naming Scheme for Automatic Snapshots: create_time

Inconsistency in the File System: false

Is Volume Quiesced (On-Disk): false

Is Volume Quiesced (In-Memory): false

Volume Contains Shared or Compressed Data&colon; false

Space Saved by Storage Efficiency: 0B

Percentage Saved by Storage Efficiency: 0%

Space Saved by Deduplication: 0B

Percentage Saved by Deduplication: 0%

Space Shared by Deduplication: 0B

Space Saved by Compression: 0B

Percentage Space Saved by Compression: 0%

Block Type: 64-bit

Constituent Volume Role: -

Is Volume Moving: false

Is Volume Move in Cutover Phase: false

Flash Pool Caching Eligibility: read-write

The snapshot is policy is set to:

Daily-H17-05

When I went into the workflow and selected the down arrow key for the snapshot_policy I only had 4 options:

VolName

Volume1

vsm1

vms2

I am assuming that it is a variable that I am missing.

Re: Creating a Snapshot with volume creation

hill — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:33:38 GMT

Hi Michael,

Actually there are a couple issues here, and a best course of action for you is being discussed internally.

The biggest issue is that the snapshot_policy is identified as a Reference Variable, and that none of the snapshot_policy information is currently being cached (pulled from Unified Manager).

A Reference Variable both adds some additional capabilites to attributes of a command. The 4 options you saw were from the autocomplete capabilities of WFA... that showed only the variables you have defined in your workflow.

Again, this issue is being invstigated internally in order to identify the best course of action. Someone will be responding soon with that recomendation.

Best,

Kevin.

Re: Creating a Snapshot with volume creation

karale — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:56:07 GMT

Hi Michael,

Snapshot policies are not monitored by UM 5.X which are data sources for WFA . Customer has to wait for a future release(July-August timeframe) of WFA in which snapshot policy will be cached.

regards,Rajeev

Re: Creating a Snapshot with volume creation

mwolosch — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:28:12 GMT

Thank you Rajeev and Kevin for your responses. I will pass this information onto the customer.

Re: Creating a Snapshot with volume creation

kandati — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:39:55 GMT

Hi Michael,

As Rajeev mentioned currently WFA doesn't cache snap_shoat policy, but If user knows the snapshot_policy to be attached to a new volume then here is the workaround..!

https://communities.netapp.com/thread/27058

Hope it helps..!

Regards

Sivaprasad K