Interaction with other features – Dell PowerVault MD3420 User Manual

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CAUTION: If the virtual disk copy has a status of In Progress, you must stop the virtual disk copy
before you can remove the virtual disk copy pair from the storage array configuration.

The following syntax is the general form of the command:
remove virtualDiskCopy target [targetName] [source [sourceName]]

The following example shows a command to remove a virtual disk copy pair:
client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "remove

virtualDiskCopy target [\"Obi_1\"];"

The following example is the script file version of the command:
remove virtualDiskCopy target ["Obi_1"];

Interaction With Other Features

You can run the Virtual Disk Copy feature while running the following features:

• Storage Partitioning
• Snapshot Virtual Disks

When running the Virtual Disk Copy feature with other features, you must take the requirements of other
features into consideration to ensure you set up a stable storage array configuration. You can also run the
Virtual Disk Copy feature while running Dynamic Virtual Disk Expansion.

About Snapshot (Legacy) Premium Features With Virtual

Disk Copy

• A source virtual disk for a virtual disk copy can be a standard virtual disk or a thin virtual disk (if

supported in your firmware version).

• A target virtual disk can be a standard virtual disk in a disk group or disk pool, or a snapshot (legacy)

base virtual disk if the snapshot (legacy) premium feature is the only snapshot premium feature

enabled on your storage array. A virtual disk in a snapshot group cannot be a virtual disk copy target.

• Snapshots created using the older (legacy) premium feature versions cannot be managed using newer

snapshot premium feature options.

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