Control | Description |
Add new Storage Array | Click to add a new storage array. |
Handoff Host | Click to add a new handoff host. |
Update Settings | Click to apply the modified settings. |
Test Storage Array | Click to test the selected storage array to ensure that the specified credentials are correct and that the storage array is licensed for snapshots. |
Client Type | Specify which kind of operating system mounts the LUN. • VMware - The LUN is mounted by the Microsoft Windows OS and is formatted using NTFS. • Windows - The LUN is mounted by the VMware ESXi OS and is formatted using VMFS. • Other - All other cases. |
Control | Description |
Enable | Select to enable application-consistent snapshots. |
Branch Hostname (VMware vCenter clients only) | From the drop-down menu, select one of the previously configured snapshot hosts. If no host has been configured, click Add New Host to access controls for doing so. |
Data center Name (VMware clients only) | Optionally, specify a data center for VMware-based application-consistent snapshots. |
Include VMs (VMware clients only) | Optionally, specify by regular expression the names of the virtual machines (VMs) to be included in the snapshot. For example: • To include VMs whose names begin with a specific prefix: ^2k3 • To include VMs whose names end with a specific suffix: ova1$ • To include VMs whose names start with a digit: ^\d • To include VMs with a specific name: 2k3vm_15g_ova1 • To include VMs whose names have a particular format: 2k3v._15g*.ova • To include VMs whose names have a particular format: 2k3v.*ova |
Exclude VMs (VMware clients only) | Optionally, specify by regular expression the names of the VMs to be excluded from the snapshot. For example: • To exclude VMs whose names end with a specific suffix: ova1$ • To exclude VMs that have a specific name: 2k3vm_15g_ova1 |
Quiesce Guest VM (VMware clients only) | Enables or disables quiescing VMs in the application-consistent snapshots. This setting must be set to Yes for snapshots to be application consistent. |