Storage : LUNs : Managing LUNs : Cloning LUNs
Cloning LUNs
LUN clones enable you to create multiple readable and writable copies of a LUN. You might want to create a temporary copy of a LUN for testing or to make a copy of your data available to additional users, without giving them access to the production data.
Before you begin
•
The FlexClone license must be installed on the storage system.
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When a LUN is thinly provisioned, the volume that contains the LUN must have enough space to accommodate changes to the clone.
Note:
A thickly provisioned LUN clone requires as much space as the thick provisioned parent LUN. If your storage system is running a version of Data ONTAP earlier than 8.1, the LUN clone operation might fail because of lack of space and you might see the following error message:
Vdisk internal error
.
Steps
1.
From the
Home
tab, double-click the appropriate storage system.
2.
In the navigation pane,
click
Storage
>
LUNs
.
3.
Select the LUN that you want to clone and click
Clone
.
4.
If you want to change the default name, specify a new one.
5.
Click
Clone
.
Related reference
LUNs window
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