Performing hardware snapshots

Before you can use the BMC snapshot-enabled utilities to perform SSI-assisted (hardware) snapshots, you must set up the hardware devices and set up XBM.

Related topic

Enabling-hardware-snapshots

The topics in this section describe how to prepare for and perform hardware snapshots:

Important

In addition to these required tasks, BMC recommends that you establish a software cache. Doing so allows XBM to fall back to a software snapshot if the hardware where the targeted data resides is unavailable. XBM handles this fallback automatically, if necessary. For information about establishing a software cache, see Enabling-software-snapshots.



 

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