An administrator has been asked to clone a 2 TB Microsoft SQL Server database within...

NDB creates database clones by using Nutanix space-efficient snapshots instead of copying every source database block into a new 2 TB allocation. The initial clone primarily consists of metadata and references to the source snapshot’s existing blocks. Consequently, it consumes near-zero additional storage when it is first created. The clone becomes an independent database environment, and new physical capacity is consumed only when blocks are changed or newly written. Because the question specifies that the clone remains read-only, there should be no meaningful database write growth after creation. Its storage consumption is therefore not equal to the source size and is not determined by fixed compression ratios such as 50 or 20 percent. Nutanix’s official Clone Management documentation states that NDB clones are highly space-efficient and initially consume near-zero additional bytes.