The Create FlashCopy Logical Drive Wizard - Preview dialog provides a preview of the and the associated that are created with the parameters that you specified in the previous wizard dialogs.
Click Finish to create the , or click Back to return to previous dialogs and change the parameters for the flashcopy logical drive and the flashcopy repository logical drive.
After you click Finish, the remains highlighted in the Logical pane. A flashcopy logical drive appears as a child node under the base logical drive and shows the name of the flashcopy logical drive with its associated capacity in parentheses.
The flashcopy repository logical drive appears at the level under the where it resides and shows the name of the flashcopy repository logical drive.
You create a flashcopy of base logical drive Accounting, called Accounting-1. This flashcopy logical drive appears as a child node under the base logical drive with this icon.
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The flashcopy repository logical drive, Accounting R-1, is created on Array 1 and appears as a child node of that array, with this icon.
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Before you created the flashcopy logical drive, you stopped the application that accessed the base logical drive and unmounted the base logical drive. Remount the base logical drive, and restart the host application that is using the base logical drive 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. To perform this task, create a
Whether the flashcopy logical drive has an automatic mapping or a specific mapping, you also must use the or a similar utility. Performing this step registers 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 might also have to reboot the hosts.