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Using the Snapshot Feature
User-Defined Parameters
Parameters for the create snapshotVirtualDisk command enable you to
define the snapshot virtual disk to suit the requirements of your storage array.
Table 4-2 lists the parameters and descriptions of what the parameters do.
Table 4-2. Snapshot Virtual Disk Parameters
Parameter Description
physicalDiskType Specifies the type of physical disk to use for the
snapshot repository virtual disk. The choice is either
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial Advanced
Technology Attachment (SATA). This parameter works
only with the count-based repository method of
defining a snapshot virtual disk.
repositoryDiskGroup Specifies the disk group in which to build the snapshot
virtual disk. Default builds the snapshot repository
virtual disk in the same disk group as the source
virtual disk.
freeCapacityArea Specifies the amount of storage space to use for the
snapshot repository virtual disk. Free storage space is
defined in units of bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, or
gigabytes.
userLabel Specifies the name to give to the snapshot virtual disk.
If you do not choose a name for the snapshot virtual
disk, the RAID controller modules create a default
name using the source virtual disk name. For example,
if the source virtual disk name is Mars_Spirit_4 and it
does not have a snapshot virtual disk, the default
snapshot virtual disk name is Mars_Spirit_4-1. If the
source virtual disk already has
n – 1 number of snapshot
virtual disks, the default name is Mars_Spirit_4- n.