CLI Guide

Create Consistency Group Snapshot Image

Description

This command creates a new snapshot image for each base virtual disk that is a member of a snapshot

consistency group.

Syntax

create cgSnapImage consistencyGroup="consistencyGroupName"

Parameter

Parameter Description

consistencyGroup

The name of the consistency group for which you

are creating snapshot images. Enclose the

consistency group name in double quotation

marks (" ").

Notes

You can use any combination of alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores for the names.

Names can have a maximum of 30 characters.

The command causes all pending I/O operations to each base virtual disk that is a member of the

consistency group to be drained and suspended before creating the snapshot images. If the creation of

all of the snapshot images cannot be completed successfully for all of the consistency group members,

the operation fails and new snapshot images are not created.

Normally, all members of a snapshot consistency group will have the same number of snapshot images.

When you add a new member to a snapshot consistency group, that new member lacks the snapshot

images that were previously created on the established members of the snapshot consistency group. This

is not an error condition. Requests for deletion or rollback of snapshot images that exist on only a subset

of the snapshot consistency group members affects only those members for which the specified

snapshot image actually exists.

Create Consistency Group Snapshot Virtual Disk

Description

This command creates a snapshot virtual disk of specific images in the base virtual disks in a consistency

group. You can select one base virtual disk or more than one base virtual disks from the consistency

group to include in the snapshot virtual disk. When you create a snapshot virtual disk of a consistency

group, you are creating a virtual disk with contents that you can view.

Syntax With User Specified Base Virtual Disks

create cgSnapVirtualDisk userLabel="cgVirtualDiskName"

cgSnapImageID="snapCGID:imageID"

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