Users Guide

Figure 28. Remove Multiple Storage Arrays window
A message is displayed asking whether or not you want to remove storage arrays.
3. Click Yes.
Saving the storage array configuration
The MD vCenter Plug-in supports storage array configuration backups to script files that can be applied
to a storage array from the MD Storage Manager software. These script files facilitate the restoration of
the storage array configuration, such as storage array name, disk group configurations, virtual disk names,
and virtual disk capacities.
The MD vCenter Plug-in does not back up data that is stored on the storage array. You must use a
standard backup strategy to recover user data that is saved on the virtual disks.
The MD vCenter Plug-in Automatic Save Configuration feature performs a save configuration of the
storage array after a configuration event has occurred on the storage array, either from the MD vCenter
Plug-in or from the MD storage management software application.
Only the configuration information for the storage array is saved during a save configuration operation.
Data stored on the virtual disks is not saved.
NOTE: Only the base storage array configuration information is saved. Objects such as snapshots,
virtual disk copies, and remote replications are not saved to the script file.
A storage array modification event starts a four-minute timer, on the application server, at the time of the
event on the storage array. If in that four-minute time frame, no other configuration events have
occurred on the storage array, a save configuration occurs. If another modification event occurs in the
four-minute time window, the timer is reset to four minutes. When no modification events are detected
on the storage array in the four-minute time window, a save configuration is performed. Automatic Save
Configuration maintains the last 15 save-configuration script files.
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