Create Virtual Disk Copy - Dell PowerVault MD3620f Command Line Interface Manual

– Punctuation
– Symbols
• You can leave out this parameter.
Additional characters are automatically generated and appended to the end of
the string that you enter for the key identifier. If you do not enter any string
for the keyIdentifier parameter, the key identifier consists of only the
characters that are automatically generated.
Your pass phrase must meet these criteria:
• The pass phrase must be between eight and 32 characters long.
• The pass phrase must contain at least one uppercase letter.
• The pass phrase must contain at least one lowercase letter.
• The pass phrase must contain at least one number.
• The pass phrase must contain at least one non-alphanumeric character, for
example, < > @ +.
If your pass phrase does not meet these criteria, you receive an error message
and you must retry the command.

Create Virtual Disk Copy

This command creates a virtual disk copy and starts the virtual disk
copy operation.
CAUTION:
Before you create a new copy of a source virtual disk, stop any data
access (I/O) activity or suspend data transfer to the source virtual disk and (if
applicable, the target disk) to ensure that you capture an accurate point-in-time
image of the source virtual disk. Close all applications, including Windows
Internet Explorer, to make sure all I/O activity has stopped.
NOTE:
See "Preparing Host Servers to Create a Virtual Disk Copy" on page 82.
NOTE:
Removing the drive letter of the associated virtual disk(s) in Windows or
unmounting the virtual drive in Linux helps to guarantee a stable copy of the drive
for the virtual copy.
NOTE:
You can have a maximum of eight virtual disk copies in progress at one time.
If you try to create more than eight virtual disk copies at one time, the RAID
controller modules return a status of Pending until one of the virtual disk copies that
is in progress finishes and returns a status of Complete.
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