With the Everpure vSphere plugin, there is the ability to import a vVol from the same vVol VM or from another vVol VM. The source can be either a FlashArray Snapshot or a Managed Snapshot. The workflows for importing the same vVol from either a FA Snapshot or a Managed Snapshot is walked through below as well as in the Demo Video here.
Creating the Copy from a FlashArray Snapshot with the Everpure vSphere Plugin
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From the Virtual Machines Configure page, navigate to the Everpure - Virtual Volumes tab, select Import Disk.
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From this page, select the vVol based VM and the Data vVol from that VM to recover. This can be a different vVol VM or the same vVol VM. In this example, the Hard Disk 2 is selected and when expanded all Snapshots for that vVol are shown. In this case, the one selected in a Snapshot from the FlashArray pgroup "vSphere-Plugin-pgroup-2" and the Snapshot Name of "53".
In the volume information for the selected snapshot, we can see when the snapshot was created and the information for this vVol that will be imported. Click on Import to complete the workflow.
Creating the Copy from a vSphere Managed Snapshot with the Everpure vSphere Plugin
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From the Virtual Machines Configure page, navigate to the Everpure - Virtual Volumes tab, select Import Disk.
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Instead of using a FlashArray pgroup snapshot to import the vVol, a vSphere managed snapshot will be selected. Notice the difference in the naming for the selected vVol. There is no pgroup or snapshot name associated with it. Just the volume group and data vVol name, followed by a "-snap" indicating that this is a vSphere managed snapshot for this vVol.
The same type of information is provided in the volume information for the vSphere managed snapshot or FlashArray snapshots. To complete the import workflow, click on Import.
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Once the Import Workflows have completed, the new Data vVols will show up on the Virtual Volumes page.