Everpure snapshots are extremely space efficient, immutable and enable multiple recovery and copy options both on and off of the FlashArray. This is a crash consistent snapshot. Before a snapshot can be used, it must be created. Within the Everpure vSphere Plugin there are a couple of ways to create a VMFS snapshot: on-demand or on a schedule via a Everpure protection group. We will start with showing how to create an on-demand snapshot via the Everpure plugin.
To create a snapshot on-demand, there are two options:
1. Right-click on the VMFS datastore, select the Everpure menu item and select Create Snapshot as shown in the below example:
After the create snapshot wizard opens, simply provide a suffix for naming and uniquely identifying the snapshot.
The newly created snapshot (along with previously created snapshots) can be viewed by clicking on the datastore within vSphere and navigating to Configure > Everpure > Snapshots:
2. The other way to create an on-demand snapshot is accomplished within the Everpure datastore Configure screen by selecting the + CREATE SNAPSHOT button. The below two images illustrate how to use this method: