Dell Computer Drive manual Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy, Recopying a Virtual Disk

You can change the copy priority for a virtual disk copy in the following circumstances:

•Before the virtual disk copy begins

See "Creating a Virtual Disk Copy" on page 87.

•While the virtual disk copy is in progress

Click the Modify tab, then click Manage Virtual Disk Copies. Select an active copy operation, then click Priority to the right of the list of virtual disk copies.

•When re-creating a virtual disk copy

Click the Modify tab, then click Manage Virtual Disk Copies. Select a completed copy operation, then click Re-copyto the right of the list of virtual disk copies.

Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy

You can stop a virtual disk copy operation that has an In Progress status, a Pending status, or a Failed status. Stopping a virtual disk copy that has a Failed status clears the Needs Attention status displayed for the storage array.

When you stop a virtual disk copy, all mapped hosts have write access to the source virtual disk. If data is written to the source virtual disk, the data on the target virtual disk no longer matches the data on the source virtual disk.

To stop a virtual disk copy, complete the following steps:

1Click the Modify tab, and then click Manage virtual disk copies.

2Select the copy operation you wish to stop by clicking it and click Stop. You can only select one copy operation at a time to be stopped.

3Click Yes to stop the virtual disk copy.

Recopying a Virtual Disk

You can recopy a virtual disk when you have stopped a virtual disk copy and you want to start it again or when a virtual disk copy has failed.

The Recopy option overwrites existing data on the target virtual disk and makes the target virtual disk read-only to hosts. This option fails all snapshot virtual disks associated with the target virtual disk, if any exist.

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