Dell PowerVault MD3200 - Page 10

10 Contents
Common Reasons for Scheduling a
Snapshot Virtual Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Guidelines for Creating
Snapshot Schedules
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Enabling and Disabling Snapshot
Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using
the Simple Path
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
About the Simple Path
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Preparing Host Servers to Create the
Snapshot Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . 143
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the
Advanced Path
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
About the Advanced Path
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Preparing Host Servers to Create the
Snapshot Using the Advanced Path
. . . . . . . 147
Creating the Snapshot Using
the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names
. . . . . . . 151
Snapshot Repository Capacity
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . 155
Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a
Snapshot Virtual Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 157
Snapshot Rollback
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Rules and Guidelines for Performing a
Snapshot Rollback
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Protecting Against a Failed
Snapshot Rollback
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Previous Versions of the
MD Storage Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Starting a Snapshot Rollback
. . . . . . . . . . . 159
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