Take a Manual Snapshot

You may need to take an on-demand (manual) snapshot of a volume before you update software or make hardware changes on the array.

Even if you plan to take snapshots of volumes manually or use a third-party program, you can create a volume collection without schedules on those volumes that are being manually snapshotted. You may see a message if you take a snapshot around the same time that a scheduled snapshot for the volume is going to start. Check the volume collection by clicking on its name, then click the Snapshot Collections tab to ensure that no snapshot is pending before you trigger a manual snapshot.

NOTE: Manual snapshots are not guaranteed to be application consistent.

Choose Manage → Data Storage.
On the Volumes tab, click the name of the volume to select it.
Click the camera icon to take a snapshot.
In the Snapshot Volume dialog box, complete the following:
1. Enter a name for the snapshot.
2. Optional: Enter a meaningful description for the snapshot.
3. Set the Status to online or offline as required for your environment.
  The default Status setting is Offline.
4. Set the Writability status as required to make the snapshot writable or non-writable (read-only).
  The default Writability status is Non-writable.
5. (Optional) Enable or disable Application Synchronization that may be set.
  
  NOTE: The default application synchronization setting is disabled.
Click Take Snapshot.
A banner appears at the top of the Data Storage page that states that the snapshot was created successfully.

You can verify that the snapshot has been taken by clicking the Protection tab. You will see that the Local Recovery Point was updated.