Follow these recommendations whenever you use SnapDrive for Windows.
- Use SnapDrive to create and manage all the LUNs on your storage system.
- Use the System Manager MMC application or FilerView to set up and configure your storage system and to provision volumes for use with 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.
- 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 the size of all the LUNs on the volume, with enough additional space for the Snapshot copies of the volume. The additional space should be based on the change rate of the LUNs in the volume and the retention policy for the Snapshot copies.
- 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.
