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14 smartclone volumes – HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage User Manual

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Mounting the snapshot on a host.......................................................................................173
Making a Windows application-managed snapshot available...............................................174
Managing snapshot temporary space.................................................................................176

Convert the temporary space to access data...................................................................176
Delete the temporary space..........................................................................................176

Rolling back a volume to a snapshot or clone point...................................................................177

Rolling back a volume to a snapshot or clone point..............................................................177

Continue with standard roll back...................................................................................178
Create a new SmartClone volume from the snapshot........................................................178
Roll back all associated volumes....................................................................................179
Cancel the rollback operation.......................................................................................180

Deleting a snapshot..............................................................................................................180
Troubleshooting snapshots.....................................................................................................181

14 SmartClone volumes..............................................................................183

What are SmartClone volumes?.............................................................................................183

Prerequisites....................................................................................................................183
SmartClone volume terminology.........................................................................................183
Example scenarios for using SmartClone volumes.................................................................184

Deploy multiple virtual or boot-from-SAN servers.............................................................184

Scenario: Computer training lab...............................................................................184

Safely use production data for test, development, and data mining....................................185

Test and development.............................................................................................185
Data mining..........................................................................................................185

Clone a volume..........................................................................................................185

Planning SmartClone volumes................................................................................................185

Space requirements..........................................................................................................185
Naming convention for SmartClone volumes........................................................................186

Naming and multiple identical disks in a server..............................................................186

Server access..................................................................................................................186

Defining SmartClone volume characteristics..............................................................................186
Naming SmartClone volumes.................................................................................................187
Shared versus individual characteristics...................................................................................188
Clone point..........................................................................................................................190
Shared snapshot ..................................................................................................................192
Creating SmartClone volumes................................................................................................193
To create a SmartClone volume..............................................................................................193
Viewing SmartClone volumes.................................................................................................195

Map view.......................................................................................................................195

Using views................................................................................................................196
Viewing clone points, volumes, and snapshots................................................................197

Editing SmartClone volumes...................................................................................................198

To edit the SmartClone volumes.........................................................................................199

Deleting SmartClone volumes.................................................................................................199

Deleting the clone point ...................................................................................................199
Deleting multiple SmartClone volumes................................................................................200

15 Working with scripting..........................................................................201
16 Controlling server access to volumes........................................................202

Planning server connections to management groups..................................................................203

Using Controlling IP addresses...........................................................................................203
Planning iSCSI server connections to management groups.....................................................203
Adding an iSCSI server connection....................................................................................204
Editing an iSCSI server connection.....................................................................................205
Deleting an iSCSI server connection...................................................................................205

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