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June 10th, 2013 03:00
How to recover VMware datastore using EQL Volume snapshot (smart copy) ?
Hi, I am using VMware Std 5.1.0b on Dell EQL 6100 series.
I have an issue where my VM datastore (2 VMs) are stored in one of the EQL Volumes. I had created weekly smart copies.
I tried to recover by creating a "cloned" volume using one of the smart copies. Therefore I would have 2 of the exact same volumes in EQL (one is current and the other is 1 week old).
I can rename them to EQL-current and EQL-old. But there does not seem to be a way for me to mount volume EQL-old to vCenter.
- I re-scanned the ESXi for data stores and tried to add but it just cannot see the volumes
- Is there a step I missed which "removes" and IDs that can differentiate EQL-current and EQL-old ?
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DELL-Joe S
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June 10th, 2013 06:00
When ASM creates the snapshots they are set to Read-ONLY. Check to make sure you change this to Read-Write in the Group Manager GUI first. Then rescan. The LVM.EnableResignature won't work unless it is Read-Write.
-joe
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June 11th, 2013 00:00
Thanks....I think i messed up on the last step...