Dell PowerVault MD3220 - Manual (Page 10)

10 Contents
Common Reasons for Scheduling a
Snapshot Virtual Disk
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140
Guidelines for Creating
Snapshot Schedules
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141
Enabling and Disabling Snapshot
Schedules
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142
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using
the Simple Path
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About the Simple Path
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143
Preparing Host Servers to Create the
Snapshot Using the Simple Path
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143
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the
Advanced Path
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About the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Preparing Host Servers to Create the
Snapshot Using the Advanced Path . . . . . . . 147
Creating the Snapshot Using
the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names . . . . . . . 151
Snapshot Repository Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a
Snapshot Virtual Disk
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156
Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 157
Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Rules and Guidelines for Performing a
Snapshot Rollback
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158
Protecting Against a Failed
Snapshot Rollback
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159
Previous Versions of the
MD Storage Manager
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159
Starting a Snapshot Rollback
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159
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