Dell PowerVault MD3260i CLI Guide - Page 129
Create Virtual Disk Copy, See Preparing Host Servers To Create A Virtual Disk Copy.
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Create Virtual Disk Copy This command creates a virtual disk copy and starts the virtual disk copy operation. CAUTION: Before you create a new copy of a source virtual disk, stop any data access (I/O) activity or suspend data transfer to the source virtual disk and (if applicable, the target disk) to ensure that you capture an accurate point-in-time image of the source virtual disk. Close all applications, including Windows Internet Explorer, to make sure all I/O activity has stopped. NOTE: See Preparing Host Servers To Create A Virtual Disk Copy. NOTE: Removing the drive letter of the associated virtual disk(s) in Windows or unmounting the virtual drive in Linux helps to guarantee a stable copy of the drive for the virtual copy. NOTE: You can have a maximum of eight virtual disk copies in progress at one time. If you try to create more than eight virtual disk copies at one time, the RAID controller modules return a status of Pending until one of the virtual disk copies that is in progress finishes and returns a status of Complete. This command creates virtual disk copies in two ways: • Virtual disk copy without snapshot • Virtual disk copy with snapshot If you use virtual disk copy without snapshot, you cannot write to the source virtual disk until the copy operation is complete. If you want to be able to write to the source virtual disk before the copy operation is complete, use virtual disk copy with snapshot. You can select virtual disk copy with snapshot through the optional parameters in the command syntax. Syntax create virtualDiskCopy source="sourceName" target="targetName" [copyPriority=(highest | high | medium | low | lowest) targetReadOnlyEnabled=(TRUE | FALSE)] copyType=(offline | online) Parameters Parameter Description source Name of an existing virtual disk to use as the source virtual disk. You must put quotation marks (" ") around the source virtual disk name. NOTE: You can use any combination of alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores for the names. Command names can have a maximum of 30 characters. If you exceed the maximum character limit, replace square brackets ([ ]) with angle brackets (< >) to overcome this limitation. target Name of an existing virtual disk to use as the target virtual disk. You must put quotation marks (" ") around the target virtual disk name. 129