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June 24th, 2013 11:00
VSM selective file restore
I need to restore individual files from a large file server.
The user guide suggests making an unregistered clone of a smart copied VM, and mounting the volume containing the files you want to restore as a new drive on the original VM and copying the specific files you want across.
We have a VM that has 5tb of volumes on our highest spec group member (SAS disks/RAID 10).
If I clone this VM from a SC as suggested in the manual ,the cloned volume is going to be created on the same group member as the original ? There is no capacity to do this at present.
Can the clone be created on on a different member to the original ? We have a high capacity SATA member in the same group.
Any advice welcome
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Joe S586
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June 24th, 2013 12:00
Are each array members in the same pool or different pools? If they are in the same pool, and you have enough free space in the pool (the total of all the members in the pool), you can create the clone and it will be distrubited accross members.
-joe
Joe S586
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June 24th, 2013 12:00
Forgot to add that a clone of a volume (or snapshot) can only be created in the same pool as the base volume.
-joe
mccarro
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June 25th, 2013 02:00
They are in separate pools - So we would need enough free pool space for the largest VM in each pool to do selective restores with VSM ?
mccarro
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June 25th, 2013 04:00
Don
Your suggestion worked - Thanks.
Having to reserve enough capacity on pools to create clones of volumes to enable selective restore seems a ridiculous waste of resource. This method is a bit disjointed but works O.K.
Thanks again
vmbru
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June 27th, 2013 13:00