SnapView Clones

Upon completion of this module, you should be able

to:
Describe SnapView Clone operations
Manage SnapView Clones

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 SnapView Clones

Lesson 1: SnapView Clone: Theory and Operation

During this lesson the following topics are covered:
Purpose of SnapView Clones
SnapView Clones requirements
SnapView Clones managed objects
SnapView Clones theory of operations

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SnapView Clones
SnapView Clone a full copy of a LUN internal to a
storage system
Population latency
Clones take time to populate (synchronize)
Data in the LUN must be duplicated
Protected
No changes will be made to the clone UNLESS the
user writes to it
2-way synchronization
Clones may be incrementally updated from the
source LUN
Source LUNs may be incrementally updated from a
clone
Copies real data
Clone must be EXACTLY the same size as Source LUN
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SnapView Clones Operations
Create Clone Group
LUN to source LUN
Changes
Add clone to Clone Group
Changes LUN to clone
Synchronize Clone
Data copied from source LUN to clone
Fracture clone (may be a consistent operation)
Stops updating of clone with new source LUN data
Remove clone
Clone becomes an independent LUN
Cannot be synchronizing or reverse synchronizing
Destroy Clone Group
Source LUN becomes an independent LUN

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Clone Initial Synchronization
Copy contents of source LUN to clone
Overwrites clone with source LUN data
Host access allowed to source LUN at all times
No host access to clone while not fractured
Production Host

Source
LUN
Backup Host

X Clone 1 Clone 2 ... Clone 8

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Clone Private LUN (CPL) and Fracture Log
Fracture Log
Bitmap stored in SP memory
Tracks modified extents between source LUN and
each clone
Allows incremental resynchronization in either
direction
Determines extent size
1 block for each GB of source LUN size, with a
minimum of 128 KB
Example: 512 GB clone. Extent size = 512 blocks =
256 KB
Private LUN for each SP
Must be 1 GB or greater
Used for all clones owned by the SP
No clone operations allowed until CPL created
Contains persistent Fracture Logs
Classic LUNS only
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Clone Reverse Synchronization
Restore source LUN with contents of clone
Overwrites source LUN with clone data
Host access allowed to source LUN
No host access to clone
Source LUN instantly appears to contain clone data
Production Host

Source
LUN X
Backup Host
X X

X Clone 1 Clone 2 ... Clone 8

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Reverse Synchronization and Protected
Restore
Non-Protected Restore
Host source LUN writes mirrored to clone
When Reverse Synchronization completes:
Reverse-synchronized clone remains unfractured
Other clones remain fractured
Protected Restore
Host source LUN writes not mirrored to clone
When Reverse Synchronization completes:
All clones are fractured
Protects against source LUN corruption
Configure at the individual clone level
Must be globally enabled first with Allow Protected
Restore checkbox

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Trespassing Source LUNs and Clones
Source LUN Trespass
Peer SP acquires clones
Peer SP acquires Fracture Logs (through CPL)
Peer SP resumes any synchronization operations
Clone Trespass
User or host can initiate trespass of a fractured clone
Desirable for load balancing across SPs
Fractured clone need not be on same SP as source
LUN
Synchronization trespasses clone as necessary

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 SnapView Clones

Lesson 1: Summary
During this lesson the following topics were covered:
Purpose of SnapView Clones
SnapView Clones requirements
SnapView Clones managed objects
SnapView Clones theory of operations

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 SnapView Clones

Lesson 2: Clone Configuration

During this lesson the following topics are covered:
Clone configuration
Creating and populating Clone Groups

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Configuring the Clone Private LUNs

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Creating a Clone Group

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Adding a Clone to a Clone Group

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Clone Group Properties

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Clone Operations

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Clone Operations - Consistent Fracture

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Clone Time of Fracture
Allows the user to know the date/time when the
Clones images were administratively fractured
Clones will stamp the time ONLY when the clones
were administrative fractured by the user and the
images were a point in time copy (consistent state)
The time will be stored persistently inside the
current clones private area in PSM
All Clones involved in a Consistent Fracture
operation reports the same time of fracture
Private LUN for each SP

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Clone Configuration Wizard

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 SnapView Clones

Lesson 2: Summary
During this lesson the following topics were covered:
Clone Private LUN configuration
Clone operations

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Summary
Key points covered in this module:
SnapView Clone is a full copy of a LUN internal to a
VNX storage system
Clones take time to duplicate data from source
Clones must be exactly the same size

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