Create a Clone Physical Disk

You can provide data protection for a physical disk by cloning the volume. You can clone a physical disk manually in the Oracle VM Manager.

1. In the Oracle VM Manager, select the Storage tab.
2. From the available SAN servers in the navigation tree, select the Oracle FS System that contains the source physical disk you want to clone.
3. Select Physical Disks from the Perspective: drop-down list in the toolbar at the top of the content area of the page.
4. In the toolbar at the top of the content area of the page, click the Clone Physical Disk icon.
5. In the Clone Physical Disk dialog, select or enter the following:

   Clone Target Type

   Storage Array. This is the Oracle FS System.

   Clone Target

   Indicate the Oracle FS System upon which you want the clone physical disk to reside. If needed, you can click the Search icon to look through the available SAN servers in the Search Clone Target dialog.

   Clone Type

   Sparse Copy or Non-Sparse Copy.

6. Click OK.
   The name of the created clone physical disk automatically defaults to the format clone_<source_LUN_name>_<timestamp>, where <timestamp> is the time the clone physical disk was created.
   
   Result:The clone physical disk displays in the Physical Disks table in the content area of the page.