Requirements & Limitations

System Requirements

• 64-bit Windows. Windows Server 2008R2 or more recent; or Windows 7 or more recent.
• PowerShell 4 or above, .net 4.5 (Windows Management Framework 4.0 will install both https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=40855)
• SQL Server 2005 or above.

Limitations

At the moment, Instant Clone has the following limitations:

• The maximum size of a snapshot (and therefore the maximum database size for cloning) is 2TB
• Databases with filestream and memory-optimized filegroups cannot be snapshotted
• Clones cannot be created as part of a cluster
• There is no security mechanism to restrict access to operations. If you can run the UI or PowerShell on a machine with Instant Clone installed, you can perform all operations.
• When used on multiple machines, Instant Clone knows about shared snapshots, but not about clones created on other machines. A shared snapshot will show the number of clones it has on the connected instance only. 
• CLR assemblies are not ported to other machines by Instant Clone. These may have to be registered in a post-clone step if they are required.

 If you experience problems using Instant Clone with your technologies, please contact us: dbclone@red-gate.com.