Use the Select the Target VDisks panel in the Create FlashCopy® Mappings
wizard to select the virtual disk (VDisk) for the target of the FlashCopy operation.
Attributes
The
following attributes are displayed in the table:
- Select
- Allows you to select the VDisk to use as the target for the FlashCopy mapping.
Note: Only
one row can be selected at a time.
- Name
- Displays the name of the VDisk.
- State
- Displays the current state of the VDisk. The following states
are possible:
- Online
- Indicates
that the VDisk is online and available if both
nodes in the I/O group can access the VDisk. A single node can only
access
a VDisk if it can access all the managed disks (MDisks) in the MDisk
group
that are associated with the VDisk.
- Offline
- Indicates that the VDisk is offline and unavailable
if both
nodes in the I/O group are missing or none of the nodes in the I/O
group that
are present can access the VDisk.
- Degraded
- Indicates that the VDisk is degraded if one node in
the I/O
group is online and the other node is either missing or cannot access
the
VDisk.
- I/O Group
- Displays
the name of the I/O group that the VDisk is a member of.
- MDisk Group
- Displays the name of the
MDisk group that this VDisk belongs to. The value Many indicates
that this VDisk has multiple copies, which can be on different MDisks.
- Capacity (MB)
- Displays
the size of the VDisk.
- Type
- Displays
the type of VDisk. The following types of VDisks are possible:
- Striped
- Indicates that the VDisk
was created from multiple MDisks
that are in the MDisk group. Extents are allocated on the MDisks in
the specified
order.
- Sequential
- Indicates that
the VDisk was created from one MDisk that is in the MDisk
group. Extents are sequentially allocated on the MDisk.
- Image
- Indicates that the VDisk was created from
one MDisk that is in the MDisk
group. Provides a direct block-for-block translation from the MDisk
to the
VDisk. This type of VDisk is intended for MDisks that already contain
data
that was not written through the SAN Volume Controller.
- Many
- Indicates that the
VDisk has multiple copies, which can have different
types.
- FC Pair
- Displays the name of the FlashCopy mapping
that this VDisk
is part of. The term Many is displayed
if the VDisk
belongs to more than one mapping.
- FC
Map Count
- Displays the number
of FlashCopy mappings that the source VDisk
belongs
to.
- Relationship Name
- Displays
the name of Metro Mirror or Global
Mirror mappings that this VDisk belongs to.
- UID
- Displays the unit identifier of the VDisk.
Actions
The
following actions are available:
- Back
- Click
this button to return to the previous wizard panel.
- Next
- Click this button after you have completed
this panel.
- Cancel
- Click this button
to exit this wizard without creating FlashCopy mappings.