SnapManager support for volume mountpoints
SnapManager supports volumes mounted on Data ONTAP LUNs in certain environments. You must accommodate particular drive letter limitations, restrictions, naming conventions, and procedures for using volume mount points. Exchange Server 2003 supports only a stand-alone Windows Server 2003 configuration.
- Drive letter limitations and individual database restoration
By using NTFS volume mountpoint support, SnapManager can manage databases that are stored on mounted volumes, in addition to those stored on standard Windows volumes. With SnapManager, your configuration is not limited to the 26 letters of the alphabet to name drives in Windows.
- Mounted volume restrictions with SnapManager
In addition to the limitations inherent in the NTFS volume mountpoint feature of Windows, SnapManager does not allow you either to store files or to back up databases on an NTFS volume that has mountpoints.
- Mounted volume naming conventions with SnapManager
You can refer to a mounted volume by the path of a volume mountpoint that is created in an empty directory. The SnapManager user interface represents a mounted volume based on the path of a volume mountpoint that references that mounted volume, as follows: DriveLetter:\MountPointName.
- How mounted volumes are shown in SnapManager
A mounted volume is a volume that is mapped to a folder and referenced by a mountpoint that is created in an empty directory. You can access the mounted volumes in the SnapManager user interface either from the Configuration wizard or from the Backup and Verification window.
