7 Premium Feature—Snapshot Virtual Disks 67

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the

Simple Path

68

About the Simple Path

68

Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot

 

Using the Simple Path

69

Creating the Snapshot Using the Simple Path . . .

71

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the

 

Advanced Path

73

About the Advanced Path

73

Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot

 

Using the Advanced Path

74

Creating the Snapshot Using the Advanced

 

Path

76

Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names

78

Snapshot Repository Capacity

79

Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks

80

Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk

80

Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a

 

Snapshot Virtual Disk

81

Re-creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk

82

8Premium Feature—Virtual Disk

Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Creating a Virtual Disk Copy for an MSCS

Shared Disk

84

Virtual Disk Read/Write Permissions

85

Virtual Disk Copy Restrictions

86

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Computer Drive specifications

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