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Learn how to contributeWorkflow for creating snapshot images and snapshot volumes
In System Manager, you can create snapshot images and snapshot volumes by following these steps.
Workflow for creating snapshot images
Workflow for creating snapshot volumes
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- SANtricity 11.7 docs
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Release notes
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Get started
- Overview
- Supported browsers and OSs
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System Manager setup
- Access System Manager
- Setup wizard overview
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FAQs
- What if I don’t see all of my hardware components?
- What if I don’t see all of my hosts?
- How does identifying applications help me manage my storage array?
- What is a workload?
- How do I configure the delivery method for AutoSupport?
- How do I know if I should accept the recommended pool configuration?
- System Manager has not detected any hosts. What do I do?
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Unified Manager setup
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System Manager
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Main interface
- System Manager interface overview
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View performance data
- View storage hierarchy
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Manage interface settings
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Manage notifications
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FAQs
- What are the supported browsers?
- What are the keyboard shortcuts?
- How do performance statistics for individual volumes relate to the total?
- Why does data display as zero in the graphs and table?
- What does the Latency graph show?
- What does the IOPS graph show?
- What does the MiB/s graph show?
- What does the CPU graph show?
- What does the Headroom graph show?
- Where can I find more information about display preferences?
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Pools and volume groups
- Overview
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Concepts
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Configure storage
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Manage storage
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Modify pool and group settings
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Manage SSD cache
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Manage reserved capacity
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FAQs
- What is a volume group?
- What is a pool?
- What is reserved capacity?
- What is FDE/FIPS security?
- What is redundancy check?
- What are the differences between pools and volume groups?
- Why would I want to manually configure a pool?
- Why are capacity alerts important?
- Why can’t I increase my preservation capacity?
- Is there a limit on the number of drives I can remove from a pool?
- What media types are supported for a drive?
- Why are some drives not showing up?
- How do I maintain shelf/drawer loss protection?
- What is the optimal drive positioning for pools and volume groups?
- What RAID level is best for my application?
- What is Data Assurance?
- What is secure-capable (Drive Security)?
- What do I need to know about increasing reserved capacity?
- Why can’t I choose another amount to decrease by?
- Why do I need reserved capacity for each member volume?
- How do I view and interpret all SSD Cache statistics?
- What is optimization capacity for pools?
- What is optimization capacity for volume groups?
- What is resource provisioning capable?
- What do I need to know about the resource-provisioned volumes feature?
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Volumes and workloads
- Overview
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Concepts
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Configure storage
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Manage volumes
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Manage settings
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Use copy services
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FAQs
- What is a volume?
- Why am I seeing a capacity over-allocation error when I have enough free capacity in a volume group to create volumes?
- How does my selected workload impact volume creation?
- Why aren’t these volumes associated with a workload?
- Why can’t I delete the selected workload?
- How do application-specific workloads help me manage my storage array?
- How does providing this information help create storage?
- What do I need to do to recognize the expanded capacity?
- Why don’t I see all my pools and/or volume groups?
- What is segment size?
- What is preferred controller ownership?
- When would I want to use the assign host later selection?
- What do I need to know about host block size requirements?
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Hosts and host clusters
- Overview
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Concepts
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Configure host access
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Manage hosts and clusters
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Manage settings
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FAQs
- What are hosts and host clusters?
- Why would I need to create a host cluster?
- How do I know which host operating system type is correct?
- What are HBAs and adapter ports?
- How do I match the host ports to a host?
- How do I create CHAP secrets?
- What is the default cluster?
- What is host connectivity reporting?
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Snapshots
- Overview
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Concepts
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Create snapshots and snapshot objects
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Manage snapshot schedules
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Manage snapshot images
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Manage snapshot consistency groups
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Manage snapshot volumes
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FAQs
- Why don’t I see all my volumes, hosts, or host clusters?
- What is a snapshot image?
- Why use snapshot images?
- What kinds of volumes can be used for snapshots?
- Why would I create a snapshot consistency group?
- What is a snapshot volume and when does it need reserved capacity?
- What is a snapshot group?
- Why would I disable a snapshot volume?
- What is the Disabled state?
- Why would I suspend a snapshot schedule?
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Mirroring
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Overview
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Async concepts
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Sync concepts
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Manage async mirror consistency groups
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Manage async mirrored pairs
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Manage sync mirrored pairs
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Deactivate mirroring
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Async FAQs
- How does asynchronous mirroring differ from synchronous mirroring?
- Why can’t I access my chosen mirroring feature?
- What do I need to know before creating a mirror consistency group?
- Asynchronous mirroring - What do I need to know before creating a mirrored pair?
- What do I need to know before increasing my reserved capacity on a mirrored pair volume?
- Why can’t I increase reserved capacity with my requested amount?
- Why would I change this percentage?
- Why do I see more than one reserved capacity candidate?
- Why do I see Not Available values displayed in the table?
- Why don’t I see all of my pools and volume groups?
- Asynchronous mirroring - Why don’t I see all my volumes?
- Asynchronous mirroring - Why don’t I see all the volumes on the remote storage array?
- Why would I update my remote storage array’s IP address?
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Sync FAQs
- How does synchronous mirroring differ from asynchronous mirroring?
- Synchronous mirroring - Why don’t I see all my volumes?
- Synchronous mirroring - Why don’t I see all the volumes on the remote storage array?
- Synchronous mirroring - What do I need to know before creating a mirrored pair?
- What impact does synchronization priority have on synchronization rates?
- Why is it recommended to use a manual synchronization policy?
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Remote storage
- Overview
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Concepts
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Manage remote storage
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FAQs
- What do I need to know before creating a remote storage connection?
- Why am I being prompted to remove my remote volumes?
- Why don’t I see all my volumes on my destination array?
- What do I need to know about the remote volume in an import?
- What do I need to know before starting a remote storage import?
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Hardware components
- Overview
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Concepts
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Manage shelf components
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Manage controllers
- Controller states
- Considerations for assigning IP addresses
- Configure management port
- Configure NTP server addresses
- Configure DNS server addresses
- View controller settings
- Configure remote login (SSH)
- Place controller online
- Place controller offline
- Place controller in service mode
- Reset (reboot) controller
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Manage iSCSI ports
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Manage NVMe ports
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Manage drives
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Manage hot spares
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Shelf FAQs
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Controller FAQs
- What is auto-negotiation?
- What is IPv6 stateless address auto-configuration?
- Which do I choose — DHCP or manual configuration?
- What is a DHCP server?
- How do I configure my DHCP server?
- Why do I need to change the controller network configuration?
- Where do I get the network configuration?
- What are ICMP PING responses?
- When should I refresh the port configuration?
- What should I do after configuring the management ports?
- Why is the storage system in non-optimal mode?
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iSCSI FAQs
- What happens when I use an iSNS server for registration?
- Which registration methods are automatically supported for iSCSI?
- How do I interpret iSER over InfiniBand statistics?
- What else do I need to do to configure or diagnose iSER over InfiniBand?
- What else do I need to do to configure or diagnose iSCSI?
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NVMe FAQs
- How do I interpret NVMe over Fabrics statistics?
- What else do I need to do to configure or diagnose NVMe over InfiniBand?
- What else do I need to do to configure or diagnose NVMe over RoCE?
- Why are there two IP addresses for one physical port?
- Why are there two sets of parameters for one physical port?
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Drive FAQs
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Alerts
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Array settings
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Drive security
- Overview
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Concepts
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Configure security keys
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Manage security keys
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FAQs
- What do I need to know before creating a security key?
- Why do I need to define a pass phrase?
- Why is it important to record security key information?
- What do I need to know before backing up a security key?
- What do I need to know before unlocking secure drives?
- What is read/write accessibility?
- What do I need to know about validating the security key?
- What is the difference between internal security key and external security key management?
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Access management
- Overview
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Concepts
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Use local user roles
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Use directory services
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Use SAML
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Use access tokens
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Manage syslog
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FAQs
- Why can’t I log in?
- What do I need to know before adding a directory server?
- What do I need to know about mapping to storage array roles?
- Which external management tools may be affected by this change?
- What do I need to know before configuring and enabling SAML?
- What types of events are recorded in the audit log?
- What do I need to know before configuring a syslog server?
- The syslog server is no longer receiving audit logs. What do I do?
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Certificates
- Overview
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Concepts
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Use certificates
- Use CA-signed certificates for controllers
- Reset management certificates
- View imported certificate info
- Import certificates for controllers when acting as clients
- Enable certificate revocation checking
- Delete trusted certificates
- Use CA-signed certificates for authentication server
- Export key management server certificates
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FAQs
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Support
- Overview
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View information and diagnostics
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Collect diagnostic data
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Take recovery actions
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Manage AutoSupport
- AutoSupport feature overview
- Workflow for the AutoSupport feature
- Enable or disable AutoSupport features
- Configure AutoSupport delivery method
- Schedule AutoSupport dispatches
- Send AutoSupport dispatches
- View AutoSupport status
- View AutoSupport log
- Enable AutoSupport maintenance window
- Disable AutoSupport maintenance window
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View events
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Manage upgrades
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FAQs
- What data am I collecting?
- What does unreadable sectors data show me?
- What is a health image?
- What do the AutoSupport features do?
- What type of data is collected through the AutoSupport feature?
- How do I configure the delivery method for the AutoSupport feature?
- What is configuration data?
- What do I need to know before upgrading the SANtricity OS Software?
- What do I need to know before suspending IOM auto-synchronization?
- Why is my firmware upgrade progressing so slowly?
- What do I need to know before upgrading drive firmware?
- How do I choose which type of upgrade to perform?
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Unified Manager
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Main interface
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Storage arrays
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Settings import
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Array groups
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Upgrades
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Mirroring
- Overview
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Concepts
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Configure mirroring
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FAQs
- What do I need to know before creating a mirror consistency group?
- What do I need to know before creating a mirrored pair?
- Why would I change this percentage?
- Why do I see more than one reserved capacity candidate?
- Why don’t I see all my volumes?
- Why don’t I see all the volumes on the remote storage array?
- What impact does synchronization priority have on synchronization rates?
- Why is it recommended to use a manual synchronization policy?
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Certificates
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Access management
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- Earlier versions
- Legal notices