Preparing Host Servers To Create The Snapshot Using The Simple Path - Dell POWERVAULT MD3620I Owner's Manual

Using the simple path, the following defaults are used for the other
parameters of a snapshot virtual disk:
• Capacity Allocation—The snapshot repository virtual disk is created using
free capacity on the same disk group where the source virtual disk resides.
Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping—The default setting is Map now.
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• Percent Full—When the snapshot repository virtual disk reaches the
specified repository full percentage level, the event is logged in the Major
Event Log (MEL). The default snapshot repository full percentage level is
50% of the source virtual disk.
• Snapshot Repository Virtual Disk Full Conditions—When the snapshot
repository virtual disk is full, you are given a choice of failing write activity
to the source virtual disk or failing the snapshot virtual disk.

Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot Using the Simple Path

NOTE:
Before using the Snapshot Virtual Disks Premium Feature in a Microsoft
Windows clustered configuration, you must first map the snapshot virtual disk to
the cluster node that owns the source virtual disk. This ensures that the cluster
nodes correctly recognize the snapshot virtual disk.
NOTE:
Mapping the snapshot virtual disk to the node that does not own the source
virtual disk before the Snapshot enabling process is completed can result in the
operating system mis-identifying the snapshot virtual disk. This, in turn, can result in
data loss on the source virtual disk or an inaccessible snapshot.
NOTE:
For more information on mapping the snapshot virtual disk to the secondary
node, see the Dell PowerVault MD3600i and MD3620i Storage Arrays With
Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clusters at support.dell.com/manuals.
NOTE:
You can create concurrent snapshots of a source virtual disk on both the
source disk group and on another disk group.
Before creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk:
• The following types of virtual disks are not valid source virtual disks:
• Snapshot repository virtual disks
• Snapshot virtual disks
• Target virtual disks that are participating in a virtual disk copy
NOTE:
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Configuration: Premium Feature—Snapshot Virtual Disks
Virtual Disk Copy is an Advanced (Premium) feature.