Dell PowerVault MD3260i CLI Guide - Page 64
Interaction With Other Features, Storage Partitioning, Snapshot Virtual Disks
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The following example shows a command to remove a virtual disk copy pair: client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "remove virtualDiskCopy target [\"Obi_1\"];" The following example is the script file version of the command: remove virtualDiskCopy target ["Obi_1"]; Interaction With Other Features You can run the Virtual Disk Copy feature while running the following features: • Storage Partitioning • Snapshot Virtual Disks When running the Virtual Disk Copy feature with other features, you must take the requirements of other features into consideration to ensure you set up a stable storage array configuration. You can also run the Virtual Disk Copy feature while running Dynamic Virtual Disk Expansion. Storage Partitioning Storage partitioning enables hosts to share access to virtual disks in a storage array. You create a storage partition when you define the following storage array assignments: • A host • A host group • Virtual disk-to-logical unit number (LUN) mapping The virtual disk-to-LUN mapping enables you to define which host group or host has access to a particular virtual disk in the storage array. After you create a virtual disk copy, the target virtual disk automatically becomes read‑only to hosts to ensure that the data is preserved. Hosts that have been mapped to a target virtual disk do not have write access to the virtual disk, and any attempt to write to the read-only target virtual disk results in a host I/O error. If you want hosts to have write access to the data on the target virtual disk, use the set virtualDiskCopy command to disable the read-only attribute for the target virtual disk. Snapshot Virtual Disks A snapshot virtual disk is a point-in-time image of a virtual disk. It is typically created so that an application, such as a backup, can access the snapshot virtual disk and read the data while the source virtual disk remains online and accessible to hosts. CAUTION: Before using the source virtual disk of a snapshot virtual disk as your target, you must disable all snapshot virtual disks associated with the source virtual disk. By disabling the snapshot virtual disks, you avoid altering the snapshot data if the source virtual disk is changed. Creating a snapshot virtual disk automatically creates a snapshot repository virtual disk. The snapshot repository virtual disk stores information about the data that has changed since the snapshot virtual disk was created. Snapshot repository virtual disks cannot be selected as a source virtual disk or target virtual disk in a virtual disk copy. The virtual disk for which the point-in-time image is created is the source virtual disk and must be a standard virtual disk in the storage array. 64
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