Re: VMware Snapshots and OnTAP Snapshots

Thank you  . I've done the manual restore process in the past when SnapCenter (or VSC previously) wouldn't work for some reason (ours is an NFSv3 environment). However I'm pretty sure we were explicitly told by NetApp Support back in 2014 - 2015 or so that the reason we couldn't recover a VM one particular time was the existence of a VMware snapshot on that VM. We established a policy as a result that we don't retain VMware snapshots beyond a couple of hours if we use them, but obviously that information got lost with some newer folks. I'm also pretty sure that I raised the question again a few years later and it was confirmed that this was still the case. Maybe it is not the case anymore? Or maybe both parties previously missed something and this was not the issue all along??