Follow these recommendations whenever you use SnapDrive for Windows.
- Use SnapDrive to create and manage all the LUNs on your storage system.
- Never disable the space reservation setting for any LUN managed by SnapDrive.
- If you want to dedicate all free space on a volume to LUNs, do set the snap reserve setting on the storage system to 0 percent. In this case, Snapshot copy creation is not guaranteed.
- Place all LUNs connected to the same host on a dedicated volume accessible by just that host.
- Unless you can be sure that name resolution publishes only the storage system interface you intend, configure each network interface by IP address, rather than by name.
- If you use Snapshot copies, you cannot use the entire space on a storage system volume to store your LUN.
The storage system volume hosting the LUN should be at least twice the combined size of all the LUNs on the volume.
- Do not create any LUNs in /vol/vol0. This is a storage system limitation.
This volume is used by Data ONTAP to administer the storage system and should not be used to contain any LUNs.
