On 09/26/2011 02:46 PM, Ayal Baron wrote:
Tony further investigated Netapp's SMI-S integration which only exposes one type of snapshots (readonly?)
The NetApp SMI-S proxy implements the snapshot functionality as a NetApp FlexClone (http://www.netapp.com/us/products/platform-os/flexclone.html).
SMI-S defines a snapshot as:
"A point-in-time, virtual image of the source element. The target element remains dependent on the source element. Snapshots are commonly known as delta replicas and contain incrementally changed data as well as references (e.g. pointers) to the unchanged source element data."