Create Virtual Disk Copy

Create Virtual Disk Copy

This command creates a virtual disk copy and starts the virtual disk copy operation.

Important: 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 will return a status of "Pending" until one of the virtual disk copies that is in progress finishes and returns a status of complete.

Syntax

create virtualDiskCopy source="sourceName" target="targetName" [copyPriority=(highest | high | medium | low | lowest) targetReadOnlyEnabled=(TRUE | FALSE)]

Parameters

Parameter Description

source
The name of an existing virtual disk you want to use as the source virtual disk. Enclose the source virtual disk name in double quotes (" ").

target
The name of an existing virtual disk you want to use as the target virtual disk. Enclose the target virtual disk name in double quotes (" ").

copyPriority
Defines the priority virtual disk copy will have relative to host I/O activity. Valid entries are highest, high, medium, low, or lowest.

targetReadOnlyEnabled
Defines whether you can write to the target virtual disk or only read from the target virtual disk. To be able to write to the target virtual disk, set this parameter to FALSE. To prevent writing to the target virtual disk, set this parameter to TRUE.

Notes

You can use any combination of alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores for the name. Names can have a maximum of 30 characters.

Copy priority defines the amount of system resources used to copy the data between the source and target virtual disks of a virtual disk copy pair. If you select the highest priority level, the virtual disk copy uses the most system resource to perform virtual disk copy, which will decrease performance for host data transfers.

Minimum Firmware Level

5.40

Parameter	Description
`source`	The name of an existing virtual disk you want to use as the source virtual disk. Enclose the source virtual disk name in double quotes (" ").
`target`	The name of an existing virtual disk you want to use as the target virtual disk. Enclose the target virtual disk name in double quotes (" ").
`copyPriority`	Defines the priority virtual disk copy will have relative to host I/O activity. Valid entries are highest, high, medium, low, or lowest.
`targetReadOnlyEnabled`	Defines whether you can write to the target virtual disk or only read from the target virtual disk. To be able to write to the target virtual disk, set this parameter to FALSE. To prevent writing to the target virtual disk, set this parameter to TRUE.