Managing datastore snapshots

Use the IBM Storage Ceph Plugin for vSphere to view and manage a selected datastore's snapshots on the storage system.

Use these steps to get to the datastore snapshot information
  1. In the vSphere Client inventory, identify the VMFS datastore on which you want to manage a datastore snapshot.
  2. From the Configure tab, go to Datastore Snapshots.
If the datastore is part of a volume group with snapshots, the following information is displayed:
Snapshot Name
The name of the snapshot on the storage system.
Protected
Whether the snapshot was marked as protected when it was captured.
Time Created
Time stamp when a snapshot was taken.
From this view, in addition to viewing snapshot information, you can complete the following actions:

In addition, you can flatten a thin clone datastore, from the IBM Storage Ceph datastore view.