Creating A Lun Clone - Promise Technology 1000f series Product Manual

10. Click the Submit button.

Creating a LUN Clone

A LUN clone is an exact copy of the original LUN or logical drive, including all the
data it contains, at one point in time. Use a LUN clone as a backup or to migrate
a LUN from one system to another.
A LUN clone has the same capacity, stripe size, read and write policies as the
orignal LUN. However, the LUN clone can be a different RAID level. The choice
of RAID levels depends on the disk array. And if you have multiple disk arrays,
you can create the LUN clone on a different disk array than the original LUN.
You can create a LUN clone immediately using this procedure, or schedule LUN
cloning to run automatically at another time.
To create a LUN clone of a logical drive:
1. Click the Subsystem icon in Tree view.
2. Click the Disk Arrays icon.
3. Click the Disk Array icon.
4. Click the Logical Drives icon.
5. Click the Logical Drive icon.
6. Click the LUN Clone tab in Management View.
7. From the RAID Level dropdown menu, choose the RAID level for the LUN
clone.
8. From the Copy Numbers dropdown menu to the right of the Storage Pool
(disk array) you want to use, choose the number of LUN clones you want to
create.
You can create up to 8 clones of a LUN at a time.
9. Click the Submit button.
• Obtain the initiator name from the initiator utility on your host
system.
• The initiator name you input must match exactly in order for
the connection to work.
The action of creating a LUN momentarily takes the original LUN
or logical drive offline, meaning nobody can read or write to it.
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