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NetApp Limitations

If you plan to perform operations with NetApp Data ONTAP storage snapshots, consider the following limitations:

Veeam Backup & Replication may fail to perform backup from secondary storage arrays if SVM/volumes have identical names between primary and secondary storage arrays.
When the storage is added as a specific SVM, and not as a whole cluster, you must set up Aggregation List for vServer so that FlexClone Volume would work properly. Otherwise, errors like this will arise: ‘Cannot create volume. Reason: aggregate aggr1 is not in aggr-list of Vserver svm-dr-nfs.’
Depending on the protocol type and operating mode of the NetApp storage system, Veeam Backup & Replication uses different technologies to perform the following operations:

You may need to install additional NetApp licenses. You need to install one license, even if several technologies can be used for snapshot clone creation.

NetApp FlexGroups are not supported for VMware Datastores and therefore are not supported for Veeam Backup & Replication.