• The pass phrase must be between eight and 32 characters long.• The pass phrase must contain at least one uppercase letter.• The pass phrase must contain at least one lowercase letter.• The pass phrase must contain at least one number.• The pass phrase must contain at least one non-alphanumeric character, for example, < > @ +.If your pass phrase does not meet these criteria, you receive an error message and you must retry thecommand.Create Virtual Disk CopyDescriptionThis command creates a virtual disk copy and starts the virtual disk copy operation.CAUTION: Before you create a new copy of a source virtual disk, stop any data access (I/O)activity or suspend data transfer to the source virtual disk and (if applicable, the target disk) toensure that you capture an accurate point-in-time image of the source virtual disk. Close allapplications, including Windows Internet Explorer, to make sure all I/O activity has stopped.NOTE: See Preparing Host Servers To Create A Virtual Disk Copy.NOTE: Removing the drive letter of the associated virtual disk(s) in Windows or unmounting thevirtual drive in Linux helps to guarantee a stable copy of the drive for the virtual copy.NOTE: You can have a maximum of eight virtual disk copies in progress at one time. If you try tocreate more than eight virtual disk copies at one time, the RAID controller modules return a statusof Pending until one of the virtual disk copies that is in progress finishes and returns a status ofComplete.This command creates virtual disk copies in two ways:• Virtual disk copy without snapshot (legacy)• Virtual disk copy with snapshot (legacy)If you use virtual disk copy without snapshot (legacy), you cannot write to the source virtualdisk until the copy operation is complete. If you want to be able to write to the source virtual disk beforethe copy operation is complete, use virtual disk copy with snapshot (legacy). You can selectvirtual disk copy with snapshot (legacy) through the optional parameters in the commandsyntax.Syntaxcreate virtualDiskCopy source=”sourceName”target=”targetName”[copyPriority=(highest | high | medium | low | lowest)targetReadOnlyEnabled=(TRUE | FALSE)]copyType=(offline | online)197
