Clone emulation flag can cause snapshots to fail
Clone emulation flag can cause snapshots to fail:
The operating system is Windows.
An EMC DMX array is used.
The BCV relationships were created with the clone emulation flag set to TRUE.
Given this situation, snapshots may fail if the EnableCloneEmulation Windows registry entry is not set to TRUE. For snapshots to succeed, set the entry to TRUE.
This registry entry is found in the following location:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\EMC\ShadowCopy
Registry details:
Name: EnableCloneEmulation
Type: REG_SZ
Possible values include:
TRUE: Enables Symmetrix array clone emulation.
FALSE: Disables Symmetrix array clone emulation.