Stopping a virtual disk copy, Recopying a virtual disk – Dell PowerVault MD3000 User Manual

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Virtual Disk Copy

You can change the copy priority for a virtual disk copy in the following

circumstances:

• Before the virtual disk copy begins

See "Creating a Virtual Disk Copy" on page 89.

• While the virtual disk copy is in progress

Click the

Modify tab, then click Manage Virtual Disk Copies. Select an

active copy operation, then click

Priority to the right of the list of virtual

disk copies.

• When re-creating a virtual disk copy

Click the

Modify tab, then click Manage Virtual Disk Copies. Select a

completed copy operation, then click

Re-copy to the right of the list of

virtual disk copies.

Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy

You can stop a virtual disk copy operation that has an In Progress status, a

Pending status, or a Failed status. Stopping a virtual disk copy that has a

Failed status clears the Needs Attention status displayed for the storage array.
When you stop a virtual disk copy, all mapped hosts have write access to the

source virtual disk. If data is written to the source virtual disk, the data on the

target virtual disk no longer matches the data on the source virtual disk.
To stop a virtual disk copy, complete the following steps:

1 Click the Modify tab, and then click Manage virtual disk copies.
2 Select the copy operation you wish to stop by clicking it and click Stop.

You can only select one copy operation at a time to be stopped.

3 Click Yes to stop the virtual disk copy.

Recopying a Virtual Disk

You can recopy a virtual disk when you have stopped a virtual disk copy and

you want to start it again or when a virtual disk copy has failed.
The Recopy option overwrites existing data on the target virtual disk and

makes the target virtual disk read-only to hosts. This option fails all snapshot

virtual disks associated with the target virtual disk, if any exist.

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