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Creating a Virtual Disk Copy If the Virtual Disk Copy premium feature is enabled on a storage array managed by the plug-in, the Virtual Disk Copy tab is displayed on next to the Mappings tab. This tab lets the management of Virtual Disk Copies on the selected storage array. See Figure 22. Figure 22. Virtual Disk Copy Management From this tab, all virtual disk copy operations are displayed along with the current status of all virtual disk copies. On the Commands box, the following options are available: Create Virtual Disk Copy, Recopy, Stop, Change Virtual Disk Copy Parameters, Remove Copy, and Refresh. To create a new virtual disk copy, select the Create Virtual Disk Copy link from the Commands box, which launches the Virtual Disk Copy wizard. From this wizard, select the source volume to use for the virtual disk copy. NOTE: During the establishment of the Virtual Disk Copy, the source virtual disk is read-only to the host that it is presented to. If Snapshot premium feature is enabled, the plug-in use this feature to create a snapshot of the source virtual disk before the virtual disk copy is initiated and the Virtual Disk Copy operation uses the Snapshot virtual disk to establish the virtual disk copy with. This action lets continued readwrite operations to the source virtual disk from the host during the establish period. Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in 33