Creating VDisk for use as FlashCopy targets

You can use the Creating VDisk for use as FlashCopy® Targets wizard in the SAN Volume Controller Console to create target virtual disks (VDisks) with the selected source VDisk to use in a FlashCopy mappings.

The FlashCopy feature makes an instant copy of a VDisk at the time that it is started. To create an instant copy of a VDisk, you must first create a mapping between the source VDisk (the disk that is copied) and the target VDisk (the disk that receives the copy). The source and target VDisks must be of equal size.

The wizard takes you through the following steps to create a target VDisk for FlashCopy mappings:

Select an I/O group and preferred node
Set attributes for the target VDisk and the number of target VDisks that you are creating
Set space-efficient settings
Select the managed disk group and managed disk candidates for all the VDisk targets that you are creating
Name the VDisk
Verify attributes

Actions

The following actions are available:

Next: Click this button after you have completed this panel.
Cancel: Click this button to exit this wizard without creating a target VDisk.

Creating VDisk for use as FlashCopy targets–Introduction

Actions