What is copy priority?

When you change the copy priority, you select the rate at which a virtual disk copy is completed. The copy priority setting defines how much of the storage array’s resources are used to complete a virtual disk copy, rather than to fulfill requests.

You can select from five copy priority rates: lowest, low, medium, high, and highest. If you set the copy priority at the lowest rate, I/O activity is prioritized, and the virtual disk copy will take longer. If you set the copy priority at the highest priority rate, the virtual disk copy is prioritized, and I/O activity for the storage array might be slower.

You can change the copy priority for a virtual disk copy in the following situations:

• Before the virtual disk copy starts
• While the virtual disk copy has a status of In Progress
• After the virtual disk copy has re-created a virtual disk copy (using the Re-copy option)