Configuring Thin Image

Parent Topic

• Thin Image

  The high-speed, nondisruptive snapshot technology of Thin Image rapidly creates up to 1,024 point in-time copies of mission-critical information within the storage system or virtualized storage pool without impacting host service or performance levels. Because snapshots store only the changed data, the volume of storage capacity required for each snapshot copy is substantially smaller than the source volume, providing significant savings over full-volume cloning methods. Cascaded snapshot configuration and cloning enables creation of snapshot trees and full-copy clones from snapshots using Thin Image.

Child Topics

• Prerequisites for configuring Thin Image
• Workflow for configuring Thin Image

  Use this workflow to configure Thin Image.

• Workflow for registering virtual volumes

  Use this workflow to register virtual volumes.

• Overview of using RAID Manager to run commands through in-band connections

  Use RAID Manager to run commands through an in-band connection to perform Thin Image tasks. To run the command through an in-band connection, reserve a volume for use as a command device.

• Changing system options that affect Thin Image performance

  You can set the system options that affect Thin Image performance using Device Manager - Storage Navigator, as described here, or RAID Manager.