It is possible to clone a physical disk. The steps and options to do so are described below.
To clone a Physical Disk:
On the Storage tab, expand the SAN Servers folder in the navigation tree, select a SAN server item contained within the folder. Select the Physical Disks option in the Perspective drop-down list. Select the physical disk that you wish to clone in the table presented in the management pane.
To clone a physical disk used by a particular server, on the Servers and VMs tab, expand the Server Pools or Unassigned Servers folder, to select a particular server in the navigation tree. Select the Physical Disks option in the Perspective drop-down list. Select the physical disk that you wish to clone in the table presented in the management pane.
Click on the
Clone Physical Disk icon in
the toolbar.
A dialog opens to allow you to clone the Physical Disk. The dialog has the following options:
Name: A field to set the name of the physical disk clone that you are going to create within Oracle VM Manager.
Clone Target Type: A drop-down menu allowing you to select the type of storage to be used for the physical disk clone:
Physical Disk: Copies the data from one physical disk to another.
Repository: Copies the data from the physical disk into a virtual disk image in an existing repository.
Clone Target: A searchable field to allow you to select the target location where the clone is to be stored.
Clone Type: A drop-down menu allowing you to select the type of clone to create:
Sparse Copy: Copies only the written data from the physical disk to the target clone.
Non-sparse Copy: Performs a block copy of the physical disk to the target clone.
When you have finished setting the clone parameters for the physical disk, click OK to begin the clone job, or Cancel to exit out of the dialog without saving any changes.