Users Guide

Option Description
• Do not change the location of Smart Copy documents if you have configured
remote verification. See Run Checksum Verification and Soft Recovery on a
Remote Host.
• Cluster nodes must always use a shared folder so it can be accessed from all
nodes, and the same backup document directory path must be used. The only
exception to this requirement is Exchange CCR or DAG clusters.
For example, if Node 1 stores backup documents on \\server\share
\subdirectory1, Node 2 must also store backup documents on \\server
\share\subdirectory1.
For clusters, you must enter the UNC-format name of this network shared folder,
in a format such as \\ClustersystemFS\H$\VSS Requestor\.
Enable Smart Copy validation on connect Specifies whether to automatically validate the Smart Copies when ASM/ME is
started.
Validation verifies that the Smart Copies described in the backup documents still exist
on the PS Series group. Dell recommends that you enable this setting because it can
help you detect problems.
Enable iSCSI portal verification during discovery Specifies whether ASM/ME can connect to previously-connected arrays when last
active.
Dell recommends that you enable this setting because it can help you detect problems.
Show Smart Copies conversion wizard if older
Smart Copies are found
Specifies whether to automatically launch the conversion wizard if ASM/ME finds
Smart Copies that you created by using an older version of ASM/ME.
Create Smart Copies online When Smart Copies are created, ASM/ME creates them in an offline state on the PS
Series group, and automatically sets them online when mounting them. Select this
option if you want Smart Copies to be set online in the PS Series group after they are
created.
You need to select this option if you create Smart Copies with ASM/ME version 3.4 or
later and mount them on another Windows computer running an older version of
ASM/ME.
Check cluster access to Backup Document
directory on connect
Verifies that the cluster node can access the backup document directory.
Warn if VSS Requestor is not logged into
cluster properly
Generates a warning notification if the VSS Requestor is not properly logged in to the
cluster.
Run ASM Services As You can run ASM services (ASM Agent and VSS Requestor services) from the local
system user account, or another specified user account. If you want to specify
another user, you must provide the domain, user-name, and password credentials.
See also Managing the ASM Services.
About the Backup Document Directory
Every Smart Copy and collection has a corresponding backup document, which can be used to import Smart Copies on different hosts.
You can specify the location for the parent folder, whether that parent folder is a UNC path in the cluster environment or a regular file
path in the normal environment, that stores these documents. If you intend to import Smart Copies on different hosts, consider specifying
a shared file system accessible to all the computers that can import the transported Smart Copy Sets.
A backup document must exist on a computer for ASM/ME to access the Smart Copy. If a Smart Copy consists of multiple components,
the associated backup document describes each component in the Smart Copy. For example, assume you create a collection of volumes.
If you take a snapshot of that collection, the resulting Smart Copy consists of snapshots of different volumes. The Smart Copy’s
associated backup document then describes each snapshot in the Smart Copy.
Backup documents that were not created by or imported to a host displays a warning message on the Smart Copy list node, and the
Smart Copies represented by that backup document is not displayed.
If you change the location of the backup document directory, backup documents that were created on or imported to the host are moved
(copied to the new location and removed from the source location). Collections that were created or modified by the current host are also
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