SnapDrive licensing

Your SnapDrive license can reside either on the local host or on the storage systems that you are using SnapDrive to manage.

If you choose to install SnapDrive with licensing per storage system rather than with a host-side license, you can execute SnapDrive operations only on storage systems that have a SnapDrive or SnapManager license installed. Licensing SnapDrive on the storage system requires Data ONTAP 7.2.6 or later. In Cluster-Mode, you can execute SnapDrive operations with only host-side license, that have a SnapManager license on host or SnapManager_suite license Cluster-mode Storage (Cserver).

Note: You must add Cserver credentials in the transport protocol setting to enable a cluster-wide user to query any license.