Long story behind this, but basically I have a 15TB thin provisioned virtual volume with about 8TB of actual data on it. We had an incident where I had to go back to a virtual copy of the data as quickly as possible, so I created a RW VC of the RO VC, exported and have been running on in for a couple of days.
Good news is that the users are happy and performance is good, but running from the VC makes me uncomfortable.
I decided to create a Physical copy of the RW VC and it is processing this copy task now, however, it is running really slow. At the current rate...it's going to take about 2 days to complete.
I can back this data up in 12 hours...restore I am guessing would be similar. I would have guessed that a process completely internal to the 3par would be at least as quick....not twice as slow.
I am just wondering if anyone has any experience with making Physical Copies. Is this normal? I know it is a lot of data....can't change that.
Also...is there another way to accomplish the same goal? I thought I could maybe promote the snap, but the option is greyed out and the documentation I've found is poor at best.
Thanks...Appreciate the help...
-Andy
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