Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance User Manual

Cloning a Snapshot (BUI)
Related Topics
■
“Understanding Users and Roles” on page 177
■
“User Authorizations” on page 178
Cloning a Snapshot (BUI)
LICENSE NOTICE: Cloning may be evaluated free of charge, but the feature requires that
an independent license be purchased separately for use in production. After the evaluation
period, this feature must either be licensed or deactivated. Oracle reserves the right to audit for
licensing compliance at any time. For details, refer to the "Oracle Software License Agreement
("SLA") and Entitlement for Hardware Systems with Integrated Software Options."
Use the following procedure to make a clone of an existing snapshot of a filesystem or LUN.
Note - Clones of projects are not supported.
1.
Go to the share you want to clone.
a.
To clone a filesystem, go to Shares > Shares.
b.
To clone a LUN, go to Shares > Shares and click LUNs.
2.
Hover over the share and click the Edit icon .
3.
Click the Snapshots tab.
4.
Hover over the snapshot you want to clone and click the Clone icon .
A dialog box appears with settings and options for the new clone.
5.
Set each field appropriately.
a.
From the Project drop-down menu, select the destination project.
By default, the clone is created within the current project, but it can be created in a
different project.
b.
Type a name for the clone.
c.
(Optional) Click the lock icon next to Mountpoint and set a mountpoint for
the clone.
Snapshots and Clones 461

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Specifications

General

Connectivity	10GbE, 40GbE, InfiniBand, Fibre Channel
Protocols	NFS, SMB, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, HTTP
Operating System	Oracle Solaris
Data Protection	snapshots, clones, remote replication
Data Reduction	Inline compression, deduplication
High Availability	Redundant hardware components (controllers, power supplies, fans). Automatic failover between controllers. Hot-swappable drives and components. Cluster configurations for increased availability and scalability.
Management Interface	Web-based GUI, CLI, REST API
Storage Type	Hybrid (SSD + HDD), All-Flash
Storage Capacity	Up to several petabytes
Encryption	AES-256 encryption at rest