HP 3PAR Application Software Suite for VMware - Manual (Page 94)

6.12 Restoring Datastores by Promoting a Virtual Copy
3PAR Management Plug-In and Recovery Manager 2.1.0 for VMware vSphere User’s Guide
virtual disks needs to be replaced. In such scenarios, promote one of the virtual copies to a base
volume.
To restore a datastore by promoting a virtual copy, proceed as follows:
1 Follow the instructions in 6.1 Viewing Virtual Copy Information on page 6.2. Make sure
that you are in the Datastores view as you can only promote datastores.
2 Click the Virtual Copies tab.
3 Select the virtual copy that you wish to promote from the Virtual Copy Set list.
4 Click Promote.
Figure 6-15. Promoting a Virtual Copy
The Confirm dialog box appears.
NOTE: If the underlying 3PAR volume used by the datastore belongs to a 3PAR
Remote Copy volume group, stop the Remote Copy volume group prior to
running the datastore promote operation.