Thanks for the reply,
Thats what netapp support said, however this as far as i am aware isnt a clone of a clone.
My Steps for this are simple.
in the SMSQL GUI i use the clone wizard to clone active production databases.
I follow the steps and specify what i would like the clones to be called and which server i would like the clones to be mounted to, this step works fine.
It creates the snapshot of the volumes required, it mounts those volumes on the destination sql server and then brings the databases online at the destination.
However the only way then to get rid of the cloned databases, are to manually dismount the databases in sql management studio and then disconnect the luns in snapdrive.
I could understand if i had cloned a clone but that isnt the case.
PS my end goal here is to automate the refresh of our test and development database servers.