
The
Snapshot Details
section displays the date and time of each snapshot that has been made of that
volume, plus its LUN mapping status. It also contains buttons for creating a snapshot, restoring the volume
from a snapshot, cloning a snapshot, unmapping all mapped snapshots, and deleting all snapshots.
Figure 3-100:
Snapshot Details
section of
Configure Volume Snapshots
page
Note
Snapshots created through the graphical user interface (GUI) may not contain information that is still in
the host’s internal cache and not written to the RAID array, which may cause data to become corrupted. For
this reason, it is strongly recommended that all host I/O be halted when taking a volume snapshot through the
graphical user interface (GUI).
Snapshots can be used to restore the volume to a previous state, create a new volume based on this volume’s
previous state, be mapped to a LUN so that hosts can access it, or can be deleted if they are no longer
needed. For details on how to perform these tasks, see the
Nexsan High-Density Storage Snapshots and
Replication User Guide
.
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