Dell PowerVault MD3200 CLI Guide - Page 86
Recopying the Virtual Disk, Owner's Manual
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1 Stop all I/O activity to the source and target virtual disk. 2 Using your Windows system, flush the cache to both the source and the target virtual disk (if mounted). At the host prompt, type SMrepassist -f and press . See "SMrepassist Utility" in the Owner's Manual for more information. 3 Remove the drive letter(s) of the source and (if mounted) virtual disk in Windows or unmount the virtual drive(s) in Linux to help guarantee a stable copy of the drive for the virtual disk. If this is not done, the copy operation reports that it has completed successfully, but the copied data is not updated properly. 4 Follow any additional instructions for your operating system. Failure to follow these additional instructions can create unusable virtual disk copies. NOTE: If your operating system requires additional instructions, you can find those instructions in your operating system documentation. After your server has been prepared, see "Recopying the Virtual Disk" on page 86 to recopy the virtual disk. Recopying the Virtual Disk After first preparing the host server(s) as specified in the preceding procedure, use the following examples to make a virtual disk copy. The following syntax is the general form of the command: recopy virtualDiskCopy target [targetName] [source [sourceName] copyPriority=(highest | high | medium | low | lowest) targetReadOnlyEnabled=(TRUE | FALSE)] NOTE: Use one or all of the optional parameters as needed to help define your configuration. It is not necessary to use any optional parameters. Refer to steps 1 through 4 in the preceding section, "Preparing Host Servers to Recopy a Virtual Disk" on page 85. The following example shows a command that changes the copy priority: client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "recopy virtualDiskCopy target [\"Obi_1\"] copyPriority= highest;" 86 Using the Virtual Disk Copy Feature