administrator credentials.
2. From the Dashboard, expand the name of your storage cluster on the left navigation menu.
3. Select the Volumes > Overview tab.
4. Select each volume you want to clone and click the Clone button that appears.
5. Do one of the following:
◦ To clone a single volume, perform the following steps:
a. In the Clone Volume dialog box, enter a volume name for the volume clone.
Use descriptive naming best practices. This is especially important if multiple
clusters or vCenter Servers are used in your environment.
b. Select an account access level:
▪ Read Only
▪ Read/Write
▪ Locked
▪ Replication Target
c. Select a size in GB or GIB for the volume clone.
Increasing the volume size of a clone results in a new volume with additional free
space at the end of the volume. Depending on how you use the volume, you may
need to extend partitions or create new partitions in the free space to make use
of it.
d. Select an account to associate with the volume clone.
If an account does not exist, click Create New Account, enter a new account name, and click
Create. The account is created and associated with the volume.
e. Click Clone Volumes.
◦ To clone multiple volumes, perform the following steps:
a. In the Clone Volumes dialog box, enter an optional prefix for the volume clones in the New
Volume Name Prefix field.
b. Select a new type of access for the volume clones or copy the access type from the active
volumes.
c. Select a new account to associate with the volume clones or copy the account association from the
active volumes.
d. Click Clone Volumes.
The time to complete a cloning operation is affected by volume size and current cluster load.
Refresh the page if the cloned volume does not appear in the volume list.
Delete a volume
You can delete one or more volumes from an Element storage cluster.
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