You should be aware of the SnapDrive for Windows licensing requirements for the restore, verification, and cloning operations that you perform with SnapDrive for Windows and the SnapManager products. The licensing requirements differ based on SAN and SMB 3.0 environments, and whether your systems are operating in 7-Mode or running clustered Data ONTAP.
| Task | 7-Mode in SAN environments | Clustered Data ONTAP in SAN and SMB 3.0 environments | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feature | License | Feature | License | |
| LUN restore from primary | LUN clone split restore | SnapRestore | SIS-Clone | SnapRestore |
| Restore from secondary SnapVault | Not applicable | N/A | FlexClone | SnapRestore |
| Hyper-V VSS autorecovery | LUN clone | None | SAN only: SIS-Clone | None |
| Local verification | LUN clone | None | SAN: FlexClone | FlexClone |
| FlexClone | FlexClone | SMB 3.0: FlexClone | FlexClone | |
| Remote verification (SnapMirror and SnapVault) | FlexClone | FlexClone | FlexClone | SnapRestore |
| DB clone | FlexClone | FlexClone | FlexClone | FlexClone |
| VM restore, file-level restore, and SMBR | LUN clone | SnapRestore | SIS-Clone | SnapRestore |
| FlexClone | SnapRestore and FlexClone | SIS-Clone | SnapRestore | |
