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31 Dell EMC SC Series: Microsoft Hyper-V Best Practices | CML1009
15. Type uniqueid disk again and press Enter to verify the new ID.
16. Now that the View Volume has a new signature, it can be unmapped from the standalone host server
and mapped to the cluster without causing a disk ID conflict.
17. Recover the guest VM.
3.4 Use SC Series snapshots to create a test environment
In addition to VM recovery, SC Series snapshots can be used to quickly create test or development
environments that mirror a production environment by mapping View Volumes to other host servers or
clusters. When SC Series snapshots containing VMs are replicated to another location, this makes it very
easy to do this at a different location.
Note: To avoid IP, MAC address, or server name conflicts, copies of existing VMs recovered from a View
Volume should be placed in an isolated environment.
The procedure to use a View Volume to create a test environment from an existing Hyper-V guest VM is very
similar to VM recovery. The main difference is that the original VM continues operation, and the VM copy is
configured so that it is isolated from the original VM.