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During this time VSM will coordinate with the PS Series SAN and create volume
clones of all of the snapshots that are part of the Smart Copy. Once these
volumes are cloned VSM will tell vCenter to rescan and bring these new cloned
volumes into the environment. Then depending on if you selected to register
the VMs, VSM may register these VMs and assign them to the appropriate
resource pool.
VSM will not power on any VMs. This is to protect the original VM
environment. After this time depending on what the use case for the clone is,
you can isolate the VMs and power them on.
NOTE: VMs will contain VMware snapshots and possibly memory state from
the Smart Copy process. During the process VSM will not revert or delete these
snapshots to protect the original VM. These snapshots need to be managed
manually once the VMs are isolated.
You will see the new cloned volumes inside the PS Series Group Manager GUI
as well as the new datastore volumes inside vCenter.