Dell MD3200i, MD3220i 11 Configuration: Premium Feature Snapshot Virtual Disks

10 Contents
Using Unconfigured Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . 138
Disk Group Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Export Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Exporting a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Import Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Importing a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Storage Array Media Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Changing Media Scan Settings. . . . . . . . . . 142
Suspending the Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . 143
11 Configuration: Premium Feature—
Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk
Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
About the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Preparing Host Servers to Create the
Snapshot Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . 147
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk
Using the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
About the Advanced Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Preparing Host Servers to Create
the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path . . . . . 151
Creating the Snapshot
Using the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names . . . . . . . 154
Snapshot Repository Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 159
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