The following details creating snapshots with Solutions Enabler:

$ symsnapvx -sid XYZ -nop -sg Prod establish -name ProdSnap -ttl -delta 2

Establish operation execution is in progress for the storage group Prod.

Please wait...
  Polling for Rstablish...................................Started.
  Polling for Establish......................................Done.

Establish operation successfully executed for the storage group Prod

The following figure shows creating a snapshot called ProdSnap and keeping for 2 days.

Figure 14.    Creating snapshot with Unisphere

The following example shows there are 4 generations of snap from the SG snap source:

$ symsnapvx -sid XYZ list -sg Prod

Storage Group (SG) Name  : Prod
SG's Symmetrix ID        : 000197200XYZ  (Microcode Version: 5977)
---------------------------------------------------------------
Sym                   Num  Flgs
Dev   Snapshot Name  Gens  FLRG  Last Snapshot Timestamp
----- -------------  ----  ----  -----------------------
00040      ProdSnap     4  ....  Mon Oct 20 11:00:00 2014
00041      ProdSnap     4  ....  Mon Oct 20 11:00:00 2014
00042      ProdSnap     4  ....  Mon Oct 20 11:00:00 2014
00043      ProdSnap     4  ....  Mon Oct 20 11:00:00 2014
 

Flgs:
 (F)ailed  : X = Failed, . = No Failure
 (L)ink    : X = Link Exists, . = No Link Exists
 (R)estore : X = Restore Active, . = No Restore Active
 (G)CM     : X = GCM, . = Non-GCM

The following shows a more detailed view giving more information including the timestamp of each snapshot and expiration date if one was set on creation.

Note: See Appendix B: Geometry compatibility mode for information about the GCM Flag.

Figure 15.    Viewing snapshots with Unisphere 9.0