VSS and VSSADMIN to "Freeze" NTFS for snapshots

Hello.

I am hosting an NTFS volume on a SAN who's vendor does not provide any kind of VSS provider to quiesce a file system priot to a block level volume snapshot.

The volume I would like to snapshot contains about 2000 "data files" which are in various states of change throughout the day and night.

I would like to take snapshots of the SAN volumes for recovery purposes, however since the SAN provider does not offer a VSS provider of agent (similar to the NetApp SnapManger) I was tyring to figure out a way to quiesce the volume prior to the snapshot being taken.

I'm trying to understand if running "vssadmin.exe create shadow /for=F:" just before the snapshot of the volume is taken (The volume I'm snapshotting is F:) will achieve the clean state that I'm looking for?

My process would like a bit like this ...

1. vssadmin.exe create shadow /for=F:

2. Initiate block level snapshot.

3. vssadmin.exe delete shadows /for=F:

Does anyone know if this process result in me getting a clean (All data flushed to disk) snapshot?

Also, are there any other suggestions or experiences people have with this?

Many thanks in advance,
Mitch