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Dell PowerVault NX1950 User Manual

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Detailed End-to-End iSCSI Setup

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7 The Virtual Disks screen appears and displays two options.

Include all Virtual Disks (default)

Include only the selected Virtual Disks

You can select all or selected Virtual Disks for snapshots.

NOTE:

In a PowerVault NX1950 storage solution, all Virtual Disks are listed in

the Virtual Disks screen. In a PowerVault NX1950 cluster solution, Virtual

Disks of the volumes that are available in the selected Resource Group

are listed.

8 The Frequency screen appears and lists the different options namely—

Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and On-time only. Choose one option and

click

Next.

9 You must select the Start time, Days, Months, Start Date, and other time

parameters based on Frequency selection in step 8. Edit these parameters

to the preferred time. Click

Next.

NOTE:

You can modify the Snapshot schedule later.

10 The Completing the Schedule Snapshot Wizard screen is displayed. Click

Finish.

Verifying Scheduling Snapshots (Optional)
After you schedule the creation of Snapshots, go to the PowerVault NX1950

Management ConsoleMicrosoft iSCSI Software TargetSnapshots

Schedules and verify that Schedule name, current run, next run with

time-stamping are displayed in the middle-pane.

Active Snapshots
After scheduling the creation of snapshots, go to the Active Snapshots tab.

All snapshot details including the Source Virtual Disk, Time stamp, and the

Export status are listed in the middle-pane.
You can use the Active Snapshots tab to export, delete, rollback, and mount

Active Snapshots like a local disk.