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Dell PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System CLI Guide

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snapshots

This basetype is used by show snapshots.

Table 1. snapshots properties
Name Type Description
durable-id string Snapshot ID.
virtual-disk-name string The name of the disk group or pool that contains the snapshot.
storage-pool-name string The name of the disk group or pool that contains the snapshot.
storage-pools-url string Pool URL.
serial-number string Snapshot serial number.
name string Snapshot name.
url string Snapshot URL.
creation-date-time string Date and time, in the format year-month-day hour:minutes:seconds (UTC), when the snapshot was prepared or committed.
creation-date-time-numeric uint32 Unformatted creation-date-time value.
status string Snapshot status.
  • Available
  • Unavailable: See the status-reason value.
status-numeric uint32
  • 0: Available
  • Nonzero: Unavailable
status-reason string Shows N/A for Available status, or one of the following reasons for Unavailable status:
  • snapshot not found
  • master volume not found
  • snapshot pending (not yet committed)
  • master volume not accessible
  • Volume copy with modified data is in progress
  • Unknown reason
status-reason-numeric uint32 Numeric equivalents for status-reason values.
  • 1: snapshot pending (not yet committed)
  • 4: master volume not accessible
  • 7: Volume copy with modified data is in progress
  • 8: snapshot not found
  • 10: master volume not found
  • 254: N/A
  • hex-code : Unknown reason
master-volume-name string Name of the volume of which the snapshot was taken.
volume-parent string The name of the volume of which the snapshot was taken.
base-volume string The root of the snapshot tree, if any. A snapshot tree is a series of inter-related snapshots of a volume and can be 254 levels deep.
base-serial-number string The serial number of the base volume.
num-children uint32 The number of child snapshots (snapshots taken of this snapshot).
num-snaps-tree uint32 The number of snapshots taken of the base volume and its children. This count includes the base volume and all snapshots that share the base volume as their root.
snap-pool-name string
  • The name of the snap pool for linear snapshots.
  • Blank for virtual snapshots.
snap-data string The total amount of write data associated with the snapshot.
snap-data-numeric uint64 Unformatted snap-data value in blocks.
uniquedata string The amount of write data that is unique to the snapshot.
uniquedata-numeric uint64 Unformatted uniquedata value in blocks.
shareddata string The amount of write data that is shared between this snapshot and other snapshots.
shareddata-numeric uint64 Unformatted shareddata value in blocks.
retention-priority string The retention priority for the snapshot.
  • never-delete: Snapshots will never be deleted.
  • high: Snapshots may be deleted after all eligible medium-priority snapshots have been deleted.
  • medium: Snapshots may be deleted after all eligible low-priority snapshots have been deleted.
  • low: Snapshots may be deleted.
Snapshots that are mapped or are not leaves of a volume's snapshot tree are not eligible for automatic deletion.
retention-priority-numeric uint64 Numeric equivalents for retention-priority values.
  • 0: never-delete
  • 1: high
  • 2: medium
  • 3: low
priority-value string Retention priority for the snapshot, based on the snapshot attributes and the user-defined retention priority for the snapshot type.
  • 0x6000: Standard snapshot.
  • 0xa000: Volume-copy snapshot. Snapshot that is being used to copy data from a source volume to a destination volume.
user_priority-value string User-defined retention priority for the snapshot type.
snapshot-type string Snapshot type.
  • Standard snapshot : Snapshot of a source volume that consumes a snapshot license.
snapshot-type-numeric uint64 Numeric equivalents for snapshot-type values.
  • 0x00004000: Standard snapshot
  • 0x00000000: N/A
storage-type string
  • Linear : Linear pool.
  • Virtual : Virtual pool.
storage-type-numeric uint64 Numeric equivalents for storage-type values.
  • 0: Linear
  • 1: Virtual
total-size string The total size of the snapshot.
total-size-numeric uint64 Unformatted total-size value in blocks.

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