In a hybrid cloud backup design, which feature enables replication from ONTAP to cloud storage?

Cloud SnapMirror is the NetApp technology specifically designed to replicate ONTAP volume snapshots from an on-premises system to a cloud-based destination. This destination can be a NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP instance or, more recently, an S3-compatible object store. This feature is a cornerstone of hybrid cloud backup and disaster recovery designs, enabling efficient, block-level, incremental data transfer to the cloud for long-term retention or DR purposes.

B. Cloud Insights is a monitoring and analytics tool for infrastructure, not a data replication feature.

C. FabricPool is a data tiering technology that automatically moves inactive (cold) data from high-performance SSDs to lower-cost object storage, not for volume replication.

D. SnapCenter is software for application-consistent backups. "SnapCenter Sync" is not a standard term for replicating data to the cloud.

- NetApp, "Cloud SnapMirror data protection," NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Documentation, accessed 2023. This document explicitly describes using SnapMirror to replicate data from on-premises ONTAP to Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

- NetApp, TR-4529, "ONTAP 9 Data Protection and Disaster Recovery," February 2021. Section "SnapMirror to the cloud," p. 12, details the use of SnapMirror for replicating to cloud targets.