Creating A Virtual Disk Copy - Dell PowerVault MD3000i User Manual

Creating a Virtual Disk Copy

If the Virtual Disk Copy premium feature is enabled on a storage array
managed by the plug-in, the Virtual Disk Copy tab is displayed on next to the
Mappings tab. This tab lets the management of Virtual Disk Copies on the
selected storage array. See Figure 22.
Figure 22. Virtual Disk Copy Management
From this tab, all virtual disk copy operations are displayed along with the
current status of all virtual disk copies. On the Commands box, the following
options are available: Create Virtual Disk Copy, Recopy, Stop, Change
Virtual Disk Copy Parameters, Remove Copy, and Refresh. To create a new
virtual disk copy, select the Create Virtual Disk Copy link from the
Commands box, which launches the Virtual Disk Copy wizard. From this
wizard, select the source volume to use for the virtual disk copy.
NOTE:
During the establishment of the Virtual Disk Copy, the source virtual disk is
read-only to the host that it is presented to. If Snapshot premium feature is enabled,
the plug-in use this feature to create a snapshot of the source virtual disk before the
virtual disk copy is initiated and the Virtual Disk Copy operation uses the Snapshot
virtual disk to establish the virtual disk copy with. This action lets continued read-
write operations to the source virtual disk from the host during the establish period.
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