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Disabling and Re-creating Snapshots, Delete, Commands, Disable Snapshot, Recreate Snapshot

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To delete a snapshot, select the Snapshot virtual disk in the Virtual Disks tree, and click the Delete link under the Commands box. Figure 21. Snapshot Wizard Disabling and Re-creating Snapshots To temporarily deactivate a snapshot, that may be used again later, highlight the snapshot virtual disk, and click the Disable Snapshot link. This will stop the snapshot process, but will maintain the relationship of the snapshot to the source virtual disk and the repository virtual disks. To re-establish the snapshot, click the Recreate Snapshot link, which then creates a new copy of the source virtual disk that may be used. NOTE: Re-creating a snapshot disables the original snapshot before creating a new snapshot. 32 Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in

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To delete a snapshot, select the Snapshot virtual disk in the Virtual Disks tree,
and click the
Delete
link under the
Commands
box.
Figure 21.
Snapshot Wizard
Disabling and Re-creating Snapshots
To temporarily deactivate a snapshot, that may be used again later, highlight
the snapshot virtual disk, and click the
Disable Snapshot
link. This will stop
the snapshot process, but will maintain the relationship of the snapshot to
the source virtual disk and the repository virtual disks. To re-establish the
snapshot, click the
Recreate Snapshot
link, which then creates a new copy of
the source virtual disk that may be used.
NOTE:
Re-creating a snapshot disables the original snapshot before creating a
new snapshot.