Hello all;

We are exploring a couple of different ways to integrate our backup product (CommVault FWIW) with our NetApps (N-Series to be exact).

CommVault integrates by leveraging FlexClone and SnapRestore. This operates at the volume level and so we either grab the entire volume or nothing at all. No way to get granularity into specific files or folders.

Due to licensing constraints, we can't just grab "everything". This may change in the future, but until then we're looking at several options including setting up dedicated flexvols where VM's which need backups are placed and other flexvols where VM's we won't back up are placed.

CV also has integration natively with vCenter, but there are some performance downsides here.

How do some of you out there handle this sort of scenario?

Thanks, Ray