HP Recovery Manager Software for VMware vSphere manual Creating New Virtual Copies

Viewing Virtual Copy Event Logs

Virtual copy operation event logs can be found at the vCenter Server level in the navigation tree, the Tasks & Events tab, and the Events tab. Use the keyword HP 3PAR to select all events performed by HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for VMware vSphere.

Figure 48 Viewing the Virtual Copy Event Log

Creating New Virtual Copies

Prior to creating a virtual copies, the following restrictions should be noted:

•Creating a virtual copy at the VM level requires available space on the datastore where the VMDK file resides.

•Datastore creation from NFS drives is not supported from virtual copy operations.

•Recovery Manager for VMware vSphere requires VMFS snapshots. However, taking a VMFS snapshot of a VM participating in disk sharing, such as Microsoft MSCS, is not supported (this is a VMFS limitation).

NOTE: Virtual copy space must be available on the HP 3PAR Virtual Volume. In order to create a virtual copy on an HP 3PAR base volume, the volume itself must have had virtual copy space allocated during its creation.

To create a new virtual copy on the VM or datastore, perform the following:

1.Follow the instructions in “Viewing Virtual Copy Information” (page 60).

2.Click the Virtual Copies tab.

3.Click Create. You are then asked to supply the name for the virtual copy set.

NOTE: If you do not wish to name the virtual copy set, click OK. The created virtual copy is identified by a date and time stamp.

4.(Optional) You can either accept the default name based on the time when the virtual copy is created, or you can enter a name of your choosing. The virtual copy name cannot exceed 32 characters.

5.When creating the virtual copy, you have the choice of changing the Ensure Application Consistency option (set by default) to specify whether or not the newly created virtual copy

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