Can someone please explain me the difference between doing an snapshot and a thin clone? As far as I am consult Snapshot Redirect on Write technology which means new writes to snapped storage resources or their snapshots are redirected to a new location in the same pool, and pointers are updated to point to the new location. A Thin Clone is a read-write copy of a Thin Block level storage resource (LUN, LUNs within Consistency Group, or VMware VMFS Datastores). A Thin Clone shares the underlying data blocks with the parent storage resource. Thin clone in Dell EMC Unity can only be done after we take an snapshot at that particular point of time from the Block or the File System . It would be a great help if someone could answer the key difference in taking an snapshot and a thin clone in DELL EMC UNITY