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Contents 5
Re-creating the Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . 77
Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a
Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Re-creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk
. . . . . . . . 78
5 Using the Virtual Disk Copy Feature . . . . 79
Creating a Virtual Disk Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Enabling the Virtual Disk Copy Feature
. . . . . . . 81
Determining Virtual Disk Copy Candidates
. . . . . 81
Creating a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Preparing Host Servers to Create a
Virtual Disk Copy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Copying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Viewing Virtual Disk Copy Properties. . . . . . . . . . 84
Changing Virtual Disk Copy Settings
. . . . . . . . . . 85
Recopying a Virtual Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Preparing Host Servers to Recopy
a Virtual Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Recopying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Removing Copy Pairs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Interaction With Other Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Storage Partitioning
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Snapshot Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
6 Using the Remote Replication
Premium Feature
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
How Remote Replication Works . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
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