Dell MD3220 Before you Begin, Virtual Disk Copy and Modification Operations, Create Copy Wizard

The Virtual Disk Copy premium feature includes these items:

•The Create Copy Wizard, which assists in creating a virtual disk copy

•The Copy Manager, which monitors virtual disk copies after they have been created

Before you Begin

A virtual disk copy fails all snapshot virtual disks that are associated with the target virtual disk, if any exist. If you select a source virtual disk of a snapshot virtual disk, you must disable all of the snapshot virtual disks that are associated with the source virtual disk before you can select it as a target virtual disk. Otherwise, the source virtual disk cannot be used as a target virtual disk.

A virtual disk copy overwrites data on the target virtual disk and automatically makes the target virtual disk read-only to hosts

If eight virtual disk copies with a status of In Progress exist, any subsequent virtual disk copy has a status of Pending, which stays until one of the eight virtual disk copies completes.

Virtual Disk Copy and Modification Operations

If a modification operation is running on a source virtual disk or a target virtual disk, and the virtual disk copy has a status of In Progress, Pending, or Failed, the virtual disk copy does not take place. If a modification operation is running on a source virtual disk or a target virtual disk after a virtual disk copy has been created, the modification operation must complete before the virtual disk copy can start. If a virtual disk copy has a status of In Progress, any modification operation does not take place.

Create Copy Wizard

The Create Copy Wizard guides you through:

1Selecting a source virtual disk from a list of available virtual disks

2Selecting a target virtual disk from a list of available virtual disks

3Setting the copy priority for the virtual disk copy

When you have completed the wizard dialogs, the virtual disk copy starts, and data is read from the source virtual disk and written to the target virtual disk.

Configuration: Premium Feature—Virtual Disk Copy

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