Release Notes

43 Dell Virtual Storage Manager: Installation Considerations and Local Data Protection | 2079-BP-V-VSM
Note: Virtual machines that have data drives on multiple datastore volumes are supported by snapshot creation.
However, during a clone operation, these virtual machines that have the additional data drives still point to the
original volumes. This causes conflicts without some manual configuration steps. As a best practice, keep all of the
data of the VMs that need to be cloned on a single datastore volume to avoid any potential issues.
To create a clone from a snapshot:
1. Open the VSM GUI and go to the object snapshots.
You can also search in the Data Recovery area of VSM and double click the object. Select a snapshot to clone,
right click it, and select Clone from Snapshot.
Hardware Resource: VSM needs to create a name suffix for every volume that it clones for the restore. This is
needed so that no two datastores can have the same name and provides a way to differentiate between the
original datastore and the cloned datastore.
2. By default, VSM appends -clone- date/time of Snapshot. A description can be entered and the deployment
hardware resource selected.
This enables cloning from a production cluster and mounting to a test and development cluster in the same
vSphere farm.
3. Select the hardware resource and click Next.
Note: This clones the entire Snapshot and consumes space for the datastore volumes that are part of the snapshot.