Restore from Storage Snapshots

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Storage Type

FlexClone (recommended)

SnapRestore

No license (Traditional LUN cloning)

Primary Storage System

iSCSI/FC

Possible

Possible

Not possible

NFS

Possible

Possible

Not possible

Secondary Storage System: SnapMirror and SnapVault

iSCSI/FC

Possible

Not possible

Not possible

NFS

Possible

Not possible

Not possible

7-Mode

Storage Type

FlexClone (recommended)

SnapRestore

No license (Traditional LUN cloning)

NDMP

Primary Storage System

iSCSI/FC

Possible

Possible (not used)

Possible

Not possible

NFS

Possible

Possible1

Not possible

Possible

Secondary Storage System: SnapMirror and SnapVault

iSCSI/FC

Possible

Possible for SnapVault

Not possible for SnapMirror

Possible for SnapVault

Not possible for SnapMirror

Not possible

NFS

Not possible for SnapVault2

Possible for SnapMirror

Possible for SnapVault1

Not possible for SnapMirror

Not possible

Possible

 

1 Veeam Backup & Replication copies VM files from the /vol/volname/VMFolder/ folder from the snapshot to the /vol/vvolname/Veeam_Restore_VMname/VMFolder/ folder. The restore wizards work with copied files.

2 Can be used only for file-level restore. To enable restore, you can use registry values. For more information, contact Veeam Customer Support.

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