Dell POWERVAULT MD3600F - Manual (Page 10)

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Feature—Snapshot Virtual Disks
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145
Scheduling a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . 146
Common Reasons for Scheduling a
Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Guidelines for Creating Snapshot
Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Enabling and Disabling Snapshot
Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using
the Simple Path
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About the Simple Path
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149
Preparing Host Servers to Create the
Snapshot Using the Simple Path
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150
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using
the Advanced Path
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About the Advanced Path
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152
Preparing Host Servers to Create the
Snapshot Using the Advanced Path
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154
Creating the Snapshot Using
the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names . . . . . . . 157
Snapshot Repository Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a
Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 164
Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Rules and Guidelines for Performing a
Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
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