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FlexClone volumes and LUNs
You can clone FlexVol volumes that contain LUNs and FlexClone LUNs.
Note: LUNs in this context refer to the LUNs that Data ONTAP serves to clients, not to the array LUNs used for storage on a storage array.
When you create a FlexClone volume, LUNs in the parent volume are present in the FlexClone volume but they are not mapped and they are offline. To bring the LUNs in the FlexClone volume online, you need to map them to initiator groups.
If the parent volume contains FlexClone LUNs, the FlexClone volume also contains FlexClone LUNs, which share storage with the FlexClone LUNs in the parent volume.

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