Dell PowerVault MD3000i - Manual (Page 5)

Contents
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Changing Snapshot Virtual Disk Settings . . . . . . . 73
Stopping and Deleting a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . 74
Re-creating the Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . 75
Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a Snapshot
Virtual Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Re-creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . 76
5 Using the Virtual Disk Copy Feature . . . . 77
Creating a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Enabling the Virtual Disk Copy Feature . . . . . . 79
Determining Virtual Disk Copy Candidates . . . . 79
Creating a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Preparing Host Servers to Create a Virtual
Disk Copy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Copying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Viewing Virtual Disk Copy Properties . . . . . . . . . 82
Changing Virtual Disk Copy Settings . . . . . . . . . . 83
Recopying a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Preparing Host Servers to Recopy a
Virtual Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Recopying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Removing Copy Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Interaction with Other Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Storage Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89