If you no longer need a , you might want to disable it. So long as a flashcopy logical drive is enabled, your performance is impacted by the activity to the associated . When you disable a flashcopy logical drive, the copy-on-write activity stops.
If you disable the flashcopy logical drive instead of deleting it, you can retain it and its associated repository. Then, when you need to create a different flashcopy of the same , you can use the re-create option to reuse a disabled flashcopy logical drive. This action takes less time than creating a new one.
Keep these guidelines in mind when you disable a flashcopy logical drive:
If you do not want to re-create a flashcopy logical drive, you can delete that flashcopy logical drive instead of disabling it.
Re-creating a flashcopy logical drive takes less time than creating a new one.
If you have a flashcopy logical drive that you no longer need, you can reuse it and its associated flashcopy repository logical drive, instead of deleting it, to create a different flashcopy logical drive of the same base logical drive.
When you re-create a flashcopy logical drive, these events occur: