Dell PowerVault MD3000i - Manual (Page 7)

Contents
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7 Premium Feature—Snapshot
Virtual Disks
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Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the
Simple Path
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About the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot
Using the Simple Path
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Creating the Snapshot Using the Simple Path . . . 71
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the
Advanced Path
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About the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot
Using the Advanced Path
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Creating the Snapshot Using the Advanced
Path
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Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names . . . . . . . 78
Snapshot Repository Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 80
Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . 80
Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a
Snapshot Virtual Disk
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Re-creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . 82
8 Premium Feature—Virtual Disk
Copy
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Creating a Virtual Disk Copy for an MSCS
Shared Disk
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Virtual Disk Read/Write Permissions . . . . . . . . . . 85
Virtual Disk Copy Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86