Mount Snapshot to other server

[voramiral]

Hi All:

We are trying to mount snapshots of our ERP servers to another server. Is their any way that we can mount snapshots of ERP server to another server without touching ERP server volume.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks,

[danielpr]

If you have Flexclone license enabled on the filer, you can clone the  parent volume based on snapshots. It will be ready for mount operations on the other servers.

Please check the man page if you need some reference for CLI

http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel731/html/ontap/cmdref/man1/na_vol.1.htm

Thanks;

Daniel

[adamfox]

If this is a SAN volume, then flex_clone is the vay to go.  If this is a NAS volume, then just NFS mount up the .snapshot directory and read away.  If you need r/w access, then flex_clone is again your answer.

[amiller_1]

Also....

• in a SAN environment, there is a LUN clone option (no cost but not as robust as FlexClone).
• if using SnapManager for SQL, there is some nice "clone database" integration which might fit very well here.