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SnapMirror policy is not honoring configured retention

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • SnapMirror
  • SnapMirror policy type of Mirror-Vault or Vault

Issue

  • SnapMirror policy is not automatically removing snapshot copies from destination volume
  • SnapMirror destination volume has more snapshots than expected/configured
  • If this issue continues overtime, the following error will eventually appear
    • The number of Snapshot copies on destination volume "DestSVM:DestVol" has reached the maximum supported count of 1019.

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