Delete the temporary space..........................................................................................173
Rolling back a volume to a snapshot or clone point...................................................................174
Rolling back a volume to a snapshot or clone point..............................................................174
Continue with standard roll back...................................................................................175
Create a new SmartClone volume from the snapshot........................................................175
Roll back all associated volumes....................................................................................176
Cancel the rollback operation.......................................................................................177
Deleting a snapshot..............................................................................................................177
14 SmartClone volumes..............................................................................178
What are SmartClone volumes?.............................................................................................178
Prerequisites....................................................................................................................178
SmartClone volume terminology.........................................................................................178
Example scenarios for using SmartClone volumes.................................................................179
Deploy multiple virtual or boot-from-SAN servers.............................................................179
Scenario: Computer training lab...............................................................................179
Safely use production data for test, development, and data mining....................................180
Test and development.............................................................................................180
Data mining..........................................................................................................180
Clone a volume..........................................................................................................180
Planning SmartClone volumes................................................................................................180
Space requirements..........................................................................................................180
Naming convention for SmartClone volumes........................................................................181
Naming and multiple identical disks in a server..............................................................181
Server access..................................................................................................................181
Defining SmartClone volume characteristics..............................................................................181
Naming SmartClone volumes.................................................................................................182
Shared versus individual characteristics...................................................................................183
Clone point..........................................................................................................................185
Shared snapshot ..................................................................................................................187
Creating SmartClone volumes................................................................................................189
To create a SmartClone volume..............................................................................................189
Viewing SmartClone volumes.................................................................................................190
Map view.......................................................................................................................190
Using views................................................................................................................191
Viewing clone points, volumes, and snapshots................................................................192
Editing SmartClone volumes...................................................................................................193
To edit the SmartClone volumes.........................................................................................194
Deleting SmartClone volumes.................................................................................................194
Deleting the clone point ...................................................................................................194
Deleting multiple SmartClone volumes................................................................................195
15 Working with scripting..........................................................................196
Documentation.....................................................................................................................196
16 Controlling server access to volumes........................................................197
Planning server connections to management groups..................................................................198
Planning iSCSI server connections to management groups.....................................................198
Adding an iSCSI server connection....................................................................................199
Editing an iSCSI server connection.....................................................................................199
Deleting an iSCSI server connection...................................................................................200
Completing the iSCSI Initiator and disk setup...........................................................................200
Persistent targets or favorite targets.....................................................................................200
HP LeftHand DSM for Microsoft MPIO settings.....................................................................200
Disk management............................................................................................................200
Planning Fibre Channel server connections to management groups.............................................201
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