Virtual Disks and Operations
This section provides comprehensive guidance on managing virtual disks in SANsymphony, covering their creation, configuration, recovery, and optimization. It includes key features such as mirror recovery, dynamic data resiliency, continuous data protection (CDP), snapshots, replication, and storage performance tools. Users can learn how to serve virtual disks, modify paths and roles, reclaim space, and ensure high availability through advanced mirroring and redundancy mechanisms.
This topic includes:
- Virtual Disks
- Creating Virtual Disks
- Serving Virtual Disks
- Mirror Recovery
- System Managed Mirroring
- Dynamic Data Resiliency
- Witness
- Virtual Disk Templates
- Storage Profiles
- 4 KB Sector Support
- Shared Multi-port Array Support
- Sequential Storage (Random Write Accelerator)
- Virtual Disk Groups
- Quality of Service
- System Health Thresholds
- Reclaiming Unused Virtual Disk Space in Disk Pools
- Virtual Disk Details and List
- Virtual Disk Status
Modifying Virtual Disks
- Changing Virtual Disk Settings
- Converting Virtual Disks to Another Type (Adding Mirrors/Split and Unserve)
- Modifying Front-end and Mirror Paths
- Replacing/Moving a Storage Source in Virtual Disks
- Maintenance Mode (Evacuate/Redistribute)
- Auto-evacuating Pools on Offline Servers
- Reclaiming Unused Virtual Disk Space
- Repairing Virtual Disks
- Deleting Virtual Disks
Snapshot
Replication
- Replication
- Configuring Server Groups for Replication
- Replication Operations
- Replication Group and Partner Server Details
- Replication Status
Continuous Data Protection (CDP)