Editing A Snapshot; Mounting Or Accessing A Snapshot; Mounting The Snapshot On A Host; Making An Application-Managed Snapshot Available - HP StorageWorks P4000 User Manual

Editing a snapshot

You can edit both the description of a snapshot and its server assignment. The description must be
from 0 to 127 characters.
1. Log in to the management group that contains the snapshot that you want to edit.
2. In the navigation window, select the snapshot.
3. Click Snapshot Tasks on the Details tab, and select Edit Snapshot.
4. Change the description as necessary.
5. Change the server assignment as necessary.
6. Click OK when you are finished.
The snapshot Details tab refreshes.

Mounting or accessing a snapshot

A snapshot is a copy of a volume. To access data in the snapshot, you have two choices:
• Create a SmartClone volume from the snapshot to use for data mining, development and testing,
or creating multiple copies. See
• Mount the snapshot for backing up or data recovery. You assign the snapshot to a server as a
read/write volume and connect to it with an iSCSI initiator.
Mounting a snapshot on a server adds temporary space to the snapshot. See
temporary

Mounting the snapshot on a host

You can add a server to the snapshot when it is created, or add the server later. For information about
creating and using servers, see
1. If it is not already added, add the server on which you want to mount the snapshot to the
management group.
2. Assign the snapshot to the server, and configure the snapshot for read/write access.
3. Configure server access to the snapshot
4. If you mount an application-managed snapshot as a volume, use diskpart.exe to change the
resulting volume's attributes.
For more information, see
When you have mounted the snapshot on a host, you can do the following:
• Recover individual files or folders and restore to an alternate location
• Use the data for creating backups

Making an application-managed snapshot available

If you do any of the following using an application-managed snapshot, you must use diskpart.exe to
make the resulting volume available:
• Convert temporary space
218 Using snapshots
"Create a new SmartClone volume from the
space" on page 221 for more detailed information about temporary space.
Chapter 16
"Making an application-managed snapshot
on page 257.
snapshot" on page 229.
"Managing snapshot
available" on page 218.