Dell PowerVault MD 32XX/36XX Series Storage Arrays CLI Guide

When you create a snapshot virtual disk, copy-on-write immediately starts running. As long as a snapshot virtual disk is enabled, storage array performance is affected by the copy‑on‑write operations to the associated snapshot repository virtual disk. If you no longer want copy-on-write operations to run, you can use the stop snapshot virtualDisk command to stop the copy‑on‑write operations. When you stop a snapshot virtual disk, the snapshot virtual disk and the repository virtual disk are still defined for the source virtual disk; only copy-on-write has stopped. The following example stops a snapshot virtual disk:

client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "stop snapshot
                                    virtualDisks [\"Mars_Spirit_4-2\" \"Mars_Spirit_4-3\"];"
                                 

The following example is the script file version of the command:

stop snapshot virtualDisks ["Mars_Spirit_4-2"
                                    "Mars_Spirit_4-3"];
                                 

When you stop the copy-on-write operations for a specific snapshot virtual disk, only that snapshot virtual disk is disabled. All other snapshot virtual disks remain in operation.