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About the simple path – Dell POWERVAULT MD3600F User Manual

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Configuration: Premium Feature—Snapshot Virtual Disks

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About the Simple Path

Using the simple path, you can specify:

• Snapshot Virtual Disk Name—A user-specified name that helps you

associate the snapshot virtual disk to its corresponding snapshot repository

virtual disk and source virtual disk.

• Snapshot Repository Virtual Disk Name—A user-specified name that

helps you associate the snapshot repository virtual disk to its corresponding

snapshot virtual disk and source virtual disk.

• Snapshot Repository Virtual Disk Capacity—The snapshot repository

virtual disk capacity is expressed as a percentage of the source virtual disk

capacity (maximum 220 percent).

• Schedule—Creates the snapshot virtual disk at a specified time, or

according to a regularly occurring interval. If no schedule is specified, the

snapshot operation begins immediately. This parameter can also be used to

apply a schedule to an existing snapshot virtual disk.

Using the simple path, the following defaults are used for the other

parameters of a snapshot virtual disk:

• Capacity Allocation—The snapshot repository virtual disk is created using

free capacity on the same disk group where the source virtual disk resides.

• Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping—The default setting is

Map now.

• Percent Full—When the snapshot repository virtual disk reaches the

specified repository full percentage level, the event is logged in the Major

Event Log (MEL). The default snapshot repository full percentage level is

50% of the source virtual disk.

• Snapshot Repository Virtual Disk Full Conditions—When the snapshot

repository virtual disk is full, you are given a choice of failing write activity

to the source virtual disk or failing the snapshot virtual disk.

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