No. SnapRestore is an add-on functionality that
leverages the snapshot techology built
into WAFL.
SnapRestore comes in 2 flavors, both are included with the
SnapRestore license:
1) Volume SnapRestore: This allows you to revert an
entire non-root volume back to a
point in time in a few seconds regardless of volume
size. A root volume will require a
reboot. But it doesn't matter if the volume is 50MB
or 8TB it can be recovered in seconds.
2) Single File SnapRestore: This feature allows you
to do an in-place recovery of
a (usually) large file very quickly. This is
particularly useful if you had a corrupted
image on LUN and wanted to go back to a known good
image.
That being said, with *no* SnapRestore license, you can
still take snapshots and
still recover individual files in WAFL via a NAS
client. This feature is and always has
been bundled with ONTAP.
There may be some add-on software pacakges that require a
SnapRestore license
like SnapDrive. Don't quote me on that, but I can
easily believe that SnapDrive would
want a SnapRestore license for LUN recovery. You may
want to check with your
rep if you are looking at SnapDrive.
Hope this helps.
-- Adam Fox
adamfox@netapp.com
Can someone please quickly explain to me how netapp licensing
work:
Do you need to buy SnapRestore license to have SnapShot
capabilities?