Create a Snapshot Resource Volume

For links and interfaces common to all Configuration Wizards links, please see Wizards Overview in ACU help.

Note: The Create Snapshot Resource Volume link will only be available for controllers that support the snapshot feature. Also, for controllers that support the snapshot feature, the link will only be available when the configuration supports creation of snapshot resource volumes.

The following screens allow you to create a snapshot resource volume using the free space available from one of your arrays available. You will be able to select the resource volume owner, size, fault tolerance or RAID level, max boot, stripe size, and enabling or disabling the array accelerator if supported.

The selection of size, fault tolerance, max boot, stripe size, and the array accelerator for snapshot resource volumes are all identical to the Create Logical Drive task. See Create Logical Drive under the Heading Logical Drives: How to... in ACU help for a description of these settings.

A snapshot resource volume is a special type of logical drive that is associated with another logical drive to hold snapshot metadata. All logical drive operations such as RAID migration, extension, and array expansion can be performed on snapshot resource volumes.

Resource Volume Owner
The logical drive that owns or is associated with a snapshot resource volume. The snapshot resource volume stores snapshots of the resource volume owner.