HP StoreServ Application Suite for VMware Media manual Creating New Virtual Copies

3PAR Management Plug-In and Recovery Manager 2.1.0 for VMware vSphere User’s Guide

6.2 Creating New Virtual Copies

NOTE: 3PAR Management Plug-In and Recovery Manager for VMware vSphere does not support the InServ Storage Server’s host set feature.

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 3PAR Virtual Volume. In order to create a virtual copy on 3PAR's 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:

1Follow the instructions in 6.1 Viewing Virtual Copy Information on page 6.2.

2Click the Virtual Copies tab.

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

Creating New Virtual Copies

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