HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform Best Practices Guide (5697-0935, May 2011)

12 Supported operations
Supported operations and commands
Table 4 (page 52) shows which operations can be performed using an existing task from the VSM
GUI. In the table, a “Y” (Yes) means the operation is allowed, and an “N” (No) means the operation
is not allowed.
Table 4 SVSP allowed-operations matrix
You are allowed to:If you have or start
with:
VSSAsync
mirror
Sync
mirror
MigrateSnapcloneCreate
snapshot
Create PiTExpand
Volume
YYYYYYYY
1
ThickVdisk
YYYYYYYY
2
Thin
YYNYYYYN/AVDG
YYNYYYYNVdisk
w/PiT
Snapshot
YYNYYYYNVdisk
w/Snapshot
YYNYYYYN/AVDG
YYNYYYYN/AVDG w/
PiT
YYNNYYYN/AVDG
w/snapshot
YYNNNYYNOn VdiskWhile
snapclone
NYNNNYYNOn
snapshot
YYNNNYYN/AOn VDG
YNNNNYYNOn VdiskWhile
migrating
YNNNNYYN/AOn VDG
NNNNNNNNVdisk
single
sync
mirror
task
While
sync
mirror (2
legs)
3
NYNNY
4
YNNVdisk
multi sync
mirror
task
NYNNYYYNOn VdiskWhile
async
mirror
YNNNYYYNOn
snapshot
YNNNYYYN/AOn VDG
1 A thick virtual disk is a virtual disk that is fully allocated or not thin provisoned (a standard virtual disk).
2 This is a two-step process.
3 A leg is a single synchronous mirror task.
4 Rollback is not allowed.
52 Supported operations