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Configuration: Premium Feature—Snapshot Virtual Disks

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2 In the AMW, select the Logical tab and select a valid source virtual disk.
3 Select Virtual Disk Snapshot Create. Alternatively, you can right-

click the source virtual disk and select Create Snapshot Virtual Disk from

the pop-up menu.
The

Create Snapshot Virtual Disk Wizard - Introduction dialog is

displayed.

4 Select Simple (Recommended) and click Next.

The

Specify Snapshot Schedule window is displayed.

5 Select Yes to set up a schedule for the new snapshot virtual disk creation.

To skip this option and create the snapshot immediately, select

No.

6 If you specified a snapshot schedule, define the schedule details in the

Create Snapshot Schedule window and click Next.

7 Enter the Snapshot virtual disk name and the Snapshot repository virtual

disk name and click Next.
The Specify Snapshot Repository Capacity window is displayed.

8 Enter the snapshot repository virtual disks capacity as a percentage of the

source virtual disks capacity and click

Next.

The

Preview window containing the summary of the snapshot virtual disk

is displayed.

9 Click Finish.

The

Completed window is displayed.

10 Click OK.

After creating one or more snapshot virtual disks, mount the source virtual

disk, and restart the host application using that source virtual disk.

11 In the AMW, select the Mappings tab, assign mappings between the

snapshot virtual disk and the host that accesses the snapshot virtual disk.

NOTE:

In some cases, conflicts may result from mapping the same host to both a

source virtual disk and its associated snapshot virtual disk. This conflict depends on

the host operating system and any virtual disk manager software in use.

12 To register the snapshot virtual disk with the host operating system, run

the host-based hot_add utility.

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