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Create Virtual Disk Copy
This command creates a virtual disk copy and starts the virtual disk copy operation.
CAUTION: Before you create a new copy of a source virtual disk, stop any data access (I/O) activity or suspend
data transfer to the source virtual disk and (if applicable, the target disk) to ensure that you capture an accurate
point-in-time image of the source virtual disk. Close all applications, including Windows Internet Explorer, to make
sure all I/O activity has stopped.
NOTE: See Preparing Host Servers To Create A Virtual Disk Copy.
NOTE: Removing the drive letter of the associated virtual disk(s) in Windows or unmounting the virtual drive in
Linux helps to guarantee a stable copy of the drive for the virtual copy.
NOTE: You can have a maximum of eight virtual disk copies in progress at one time. If you try to create more than
eight virtual disk copies at one time, the RAID controller modules return a status of Pending until one of the virtual
disk copies that is in progress finishes and returns a status of Complete.
This command creates virtual disk copies in two ways:
• Virtual disk copy without snapshot
• Virtual disk copy with snapshot
If you use
virtual disk copy without snapshot
, you cannot write to the source virtual disk until the copy
operation is complete. If you want to be able to write to the source virtual disk before the copy operation is complete,
use
virtual disk copy with snapshot
. You can select
virtual disk copy with snapshot
through the optional parameters in the command syntax.
Syntax
create virtualDiskCopy source=” sourceName ”
target=” targetName ”
[copyPriority=(highest | high | medium | low | lowest)
targetReadOnlyEnabled=(TRUE | FALSE)]
copyType=(offline | online)
Parameters
Parameter Description
source Name of an existing virtual disk to use as the source
virtual disk. You must put quotation marks (" ") around the
source virtual disk name.
NOTE: You can use any combination of alphanumeric
characters, hyphens, and underscores for the names.
Command names can have a maximum of 30
characters. If you exceed the maximum character
limit, replace square brackets ([ ]) with angle brackets
(< >) to overcome this limitation.
target Name of an existing virtual disk to use as the target virtual
disk. You must put quotation marks (" ") around the target
virtual disk name.
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