Irtual Hard Disk; Heck Available Space - Promise Vess A2600 Product Manual

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IrtuAl HArd dIsk

To backup the system disk to the RAID volume on the Vess A2000, it is necessary to create a special
volume used only for this purpose call the Virtual Hard Drive (VHD). Follow the procedure here to first
create the VHD, then you can backup the Windows disk to the VHD.
Important
Before creating the VHD, make sure the drive used for the VHD
is labeled "Prom_data1"
Check available space
First check to make sure there is enough disk space for the recovery process.
1. Click on the Computer desktop icon to check the drive Prom_data1 (D: ).
2. Make sure the name of the RAID volume used for the VHD is Prom_data1, change the name if
necessary.
2. Check to see that Prom_data1 (D:) has a minimum of 150GB free space. If necessary, delete
old data to free up enough space (150GB). For systems running Milestone surveillance software,
operate milestone parameters configurations to overwrite or retention tie time for this purpose.
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