NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer – NFS, ONTAP — Question 9

Your IT company is using NetApp FlexClone on a two node AFF cluster with 20TB of data to rapidly provision environments for each developer.
Each environment is replicated to an eight node AFF C-Series cluster at a DR site using SnapMirror. You notice that the environments are consuming significantly more disk space on the destination cluster than on the source cluster.
In this scenario, which action will minimize the disk usage on the destination cluster?

Answer options

• A. Consolidate the SnapMirror destination volumes onto a single aggregate.
• B. Distribute the SnapMirror destination volumes evenly across the available aggregates.
• C. Enable SnapMirror network compression.
• D. Enable Flexclone copies on the DR side.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

Enabling FlexClone copies on the DR side allows for the efficient use of storage by creating space-efficient clones of the original data, which in turn minimizes disk usage. The other options either do not directly address the issue of disk space consumption or may not result in the same level of efficiency as using FlexClone.