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Volume Clone Refresh

justin_smith
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We have some production volumes that contain a couple luns that are snap mirrored from a production netapp to a test netapp (cdot)

 

We then take the snap mirrored volume thats in test, create a flexclone of it and present that to Vmware to be presented to some VM's and add the luns as RDMs Then we break split the clone and all is well.

 

Its not a hard process, but somewhat tedious and repetative. Is this something that can be done in WFA?

 

Here are the steps we do.

 

Offline existing volume if it exists

Delete existing volume if it exists
Create a flexclone of the  mirrored volume
Add inititators to LUN's
Scan ESX host
add RDM's to the virtual machine
Split the clone

 

I've looked at a few canned workflows but none seem to do what I want. I figured I'd throw it out to the community and see if someone else has done a WF for this. I've played around with creating my own but the clone volume piece seems to be hanging me up.

 

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