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If the NetApp storage system operates over NFS, you do not have to install any additional licenses to use Backup from Storage Snapshots.
For Backup from Storage Snapshots, Veeam Backup & Replication creates a snapshot of a volume on which the NFS share with VM data resides. The created volume snapshot is used as a source of data. Veeam Backup & Replication starts its native NFS agent on the backup proxy and uses it to read data from the “cloned” NFS share on the volume snapshot.
