Cloning LUNs

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Storage Virtual Machines : Storage > LUNs : Managing 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 providing them access to the production data.

Before you begin

•	The FlexClone license must be installed on the storage system.

•	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 thickly 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 page, double-click the appropriate storage system.

2.	Expand the Storage Virtual Machines hierarchy in the left navigation pane.

3.	In the navigation pane, select the Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) and click Storage > LUNs.

4.	Select the LUN that you want to clone and click Clone.

5.	If you want to change the default name, specify a new name.

6.	Click Clone.

7.	Verify that the LUN clone you created is listed in the LUNs window.

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