An administrator is setting up SnapMirror SVM replication. One of the source data volumes uses cloud tiering with the snapshot-only tiering policy…

When a volume enabled with a cloud tiering (FabricPool) policy is replicated using SnapMirror, the tiering policy of the destination volume is inherited from the source volume. This ensures that the data management and tiering behavior are consistent across the SnapMirror relationship. Since the source volume in this scenario has a snapshot-only tiering policy, the destination volume must also have the snapshot-only policy. The policy is not user-configurable on the destination and is set automatically during the replication initialization.

A. none: This is incorrect because the tiering policy is replicated from the source; it is not disabled on the destination volume.

B. auto: This is incorrect because the destination policy must match the source policy, which is snapshot-only, not auto.

C. all: This is incorrect because the destination policy must match the source policy, which is snapshot-only, not all.

1. NetApp Technical Report 4598, "SnapMirror and SnapVault with FabricPool": In the section "FabricPool and SnapMirror," it states, "The tiering policy on the destination volume is inherited from the source volume. For example, if the source volume has a tiering policy of snapshot-only, the destination volume also has a tiering policy of snapshot-only." (Page 7)

2. NetApp ONTAP 9 Documentation, "Data protection using SnapMirror technology": In the section "Replicating volumes attached to a FabricPool aggregate," the documentation states, "When you replicate a volume that is attached to a FabricPool aggregate, the tiering policy of the destination volume is the same as the tiering policy of the source volume."