Dell PowerVault MD3420 - Manual (Page 162)

Create Consistency Group Snapshot Virtual Disk
Description
This command creates a snapshot virtual disk of specific images in the base virtual disks in a consistency
group. You can select one base virtual disk or more than one base virtual disks from the consistency
group to include in the snapshot virtual disk. When you create a snapshot virtual disk of a consistency
group, you are creating a virtual disk with contents that you can view.
Syntax With User Specified Base Virtual Disks
create cgSnapVirtualDisk userLabel="cgVirtualDiskName"
cgSnapImageID="snapCGID:imageID"
members=(baseVirtualDisk:repositoryVirtualDisk...baseVirtualDisk:repositoryVirtu
alDisk)
Syntax When Setting The Consistency Group Snapshot Virtual Disk To Read
Only
create cgSnapVirtualDisk userLabel="cgVirtualDiskName"
cgSnapImageID="snapCGID:imageID"
readOnly
Syntax When Setting The Repository Full Limit
create cgSnapVirtualDisk userLabel="cgVirtualDiskName"
cgSnapImageID="snapCGID:imageID"
repositoryFullLimit=percentValue
Parameters
Parameter Description
userLabel The name that you want to give the consistency
group snapshot virtual disk that you are creating.
Enclose the consistency group snapshot virtual
disk name in double quotation marks (" ").
cgSnapImageID The identifier of the snapshot image from the
snapshot consistency group that you want to
include in the consistency group snapshot virtual
disk. Enclose the snapshotImage identifier in
double quotation marks (" ").
members The identifier of one base virtual disk or more than
one base virtual disks that you want to add. The
members identifier is comprised of the base virtual
disk name concatenated with the repository virtual
disk name. You must use a colon (:) between the
two names. Enclose all of the member identifiers in
parenthesizes. If you enter more than one member
separated the members with a space.
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