DELL MD3220 User Manual

Configuration: Premium Feature—Snapshot Virtual Disks

The Create Snapshot Virtual Disk Wizard - Introduction dialog appears.

4 Select Simple (Recommended), and click Next.

The 

Specify Names window is displayed.

5 Enter the Snapshot virtual disk name and the Snapshot repository virtual 

disk name and click Next.
The Specify Snapshot Repository Capacity window is displayed.

6 Enter the snapshot repository virtual disks capacity as a percentage of the 

source virtual disks capacity and click 

Next.

The 

Preview window containing the summary of the snapshot virtual disk 

is displayed.

7 Click Finish.

The 

Completed window is displayed.

8 Click OK.

After creating one or more snapshot virtual disks, mount the source virtual 

disk, and restart the host application using that source virtual disk.

9 In the AMW, select the Mappings tab, assign mappings between the 

snapshot virtual disk and the host that accesses the snapshot virtual disk. 

In some cases, conflicts might result from mapping the same host to both a 

source virtual disk and its associated snapshot virtual disk. This conflict depends on 

the host operating system and any virtual disk manager software in use. 

10 To register the snapshot virtual disk with the host operating system, run 

the host-based hot_add utility.

11 To associate the mapping between the storage array name and the virtual 

disk name, run the host-based SMdevices utility.

If your operating system requires additional instructions, you can find those 

instructions in your operating system documentation.

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