ONTAP create Single Instance Storage (SIS) clone fails and reverts to using Block Copy Engine (BCE)
Applies to
- Clustered ONTAP 8.x
- ONTAP 9.x
- NetApp VMware VAAI Copy Offload Plugin (vStorage API for Array Integration)
Issue
- SIS clones take 15 seconds to create and are used for bulk deployment of VM's.
- Data ONTAP cannot create a Single Instance Storage (SIS) clone it will instead revert to using the traditional Block Copy Engine (BCE) that can take hours for a large VM.
- Data ONTAP has a deduplication logical size data limit of 640 TB regardless of the size of the volume.