Dell PowerVault MD3000i User's Guide - Page 69
Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot Using the Simple Path
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• Snapshot Repository Virtual Disk Name - A user-specified name that helps you associate the snapshot repository virtual disk to its corresponding snapshot virtual disk and source virtual disk. Using the simple path, the following defaults are used for the other parameters of a snapshot virtual disk: • Capacity Allocation - The snapshot repository virtual disk is created using free capacity on the same disk group where the source virtual disk resides. • Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping - The default setting is Map now. • Percent Full - When the snapshot repository virtual disk reaches the specified repository full percentage level, the event is logged in the Main Event Log (MEL). The default snapshot repository full percentage level is 50 percent of the source virtual disk. • Snapshot Repository Virtual Disk Full Conditions - When the snapshot repository virtual disk becomes full, you are given a choice of failing write activity to the source virtual disk or failing the snapshot virtual disk. Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot Using the Simple Path NOTICE: Before using the Snapshot Virtual Disks Premium Feature in a Microsoft® Windows® clustered configuration, you must first map the snapshot virtual disk to the cluster node that owns the source virtual disk. This ensures that the cluster nodes correctly recognize the snapshot virtual disk. Mapping the snapshot virtual disk to the node that does not own the source virtual disk before the Snapshot enabling process is completed can result in the operating system mis-identifying the snapshot virtual disk. This, in turn, can result in data loss on the source virtual disk or an inaccessible snapshot. For details on mapping the snapshot virtual disk to the secondary node, refer to the Dell PowerEdge™ Cluster SE600W Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guide on support.dell.com NOTE: You can create concurrent snapshots of a source virtual disk on both the source disk group and on another disk group. Snapshot Virtual Disks 69