Create FlashCopy Logical Drive Wizard: Preview

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This screen provides a preview of the FlashCopy logical drive and associated FlashCopy repository logical drive that will be created with the parameters you specified in the previous Wizard screens.

Select Finish to create the logical drives, or select Back to return to previous screens and change FlashCopy and FlashCopy repository logical drive parameters.

After selecting the Finish button, the base logical drive remains highlighted in the Subsystem Management Window Logical View. A FlashCopy logical drive appears as a child node under the base logical drive, showing the name of the FlashCopy logical drive with its associated capacity in parentheses.

The FlashCopy repository logical drive is displayed at the standard logical drive level under the array where it resides, showing the name of the FlashCopy repository logical drive.

Example

You create a FlashCopy of base logical drive Accounting, called Accounting-1. This FlashCopy logical drive displays as a child node under the base logical drive with this icon , as shown in the graphic below.

The FlashCopy repository logical drive, Accounting R-1, is created on Array 1 and displays as a child node of that array, with this icon .

What Else Do I Need to Do?

Before you created the FlashCopy logical drive, you stopped the host application accessing the base logical drive and unmounted the base logical drive. Remount the base logical drive and restart the host application using it for storage. If, during the FlashCopy creation process, you selected the Map Later with Storage Partitioning advanced parameter, you must grant one or more hosts access to the FlashCopy by creating a logical drive-to-LUN mapping.

Whether or not the FlashCopy logical drive has an automatic or a specific logical drive-to-LUN mapping, you also need to use the hot_add utility or a similar utility to register the new FlashCopy logical drive with the operating system of the host or hosts that will access the FlashCopy logical drive. Under certain situations, you may also have to reboot the host(s).

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Creating a FlashCopy Logical Drive Using the FlashCopy Logical Drive Wizard

Managing Logical Drives