Dell 32XX, 34XX, 38XX, 36XX Create Snapshot Legacy Virtual Disk, Syntax User-Defined Physical Disks

Parameters

Parameter	Description
snapGroup or snapGroups	The name of the snapshot group that will contain
	the snapshot image. Enclose the name of the
	snapshot group in double quotation marks (" ").
	If you enter more than one snapshot group name,
	enclose each of the snapshot group names in
	double quotation marks (" "). Enclose all of the
	snapshot group names in parentheses.

Notes

You can use any combination of alphanumeric characters, underscore (_), hyphen (-), and pound (#) for the names. Names can have a maximum of 30 characters.

A snapshot image is a logical point-in-time image of the contents of an associated base virtual disk. The snapshot image is created instantly and records the state of the base virtual disk at that moment. Every snapshot image is created in the context of exactly one snapshot group. A snapshot group is a sequence of snapshot images of the associated base virtual disk. A snapshot group has one repository virtual disk used to save all of the data from the snapshot images. The snapshot images in a snapshot group have a specific order. The specific order of the snapshot images enables you to manage the snapshot images, such as restoring a specific snapshot image to the base virtual disk or deleting the snapshot images that you no longer need.

The result of creating a snapshot image of a consistency group is a snapshot image of every member virtual disk of the consistency group.

Create Snapshot (Legacy) Virtual Disk

Description

This command creates a snapshot virtual disk. When you use this command, you can define the snapshot virtual disk in one of three ways:

•User-defined physical disks

•User-defined disk group

•User-defined number of physical disks for the snapshot virtual disk

If you choose to define a number of physical disks, the RAID controller module firmware chooses which physical disks to use for the snapshot (legacy) virtual disk.

Syntax (User-Defined Physical Disks)

create snapshotVirtualDisk baseVirtualDisk="baseVirtualDiskName" [repositoryRAIDLevel=(0 1 5 6)] [repositoryPhysicalDisks=(enclosureID1,slotID1 ... enclosureIDn,slotIDn)] [repositoryDiskGroupUserLabel="repositoryDiskGroupName"] [enclosureLossProtect=(TRUE FALSE)] [freeCapacityArea=freeCapacityIndexNumber] [userLabel="snapshotVirtualDiskName"] [warningThresholdPercent=percentValue]

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