Dell PowerVault MD3260 Administrator's Guide - Page 135
Activating The Remote Replication Premium Feature And Creating Replication Virtual Disks
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- Both virtual disks are visible to a single management station; replicated disk pairs cannot be managed on separate instances of the MD Storage Manager. - The RAID level of the secondary virtual disk can be different than that of the primary virtual disk. - The capacity of the secondary virtual disk (after creation and formatting) must be equal to or greater than the capacity of the primary virtual disk. • The storage arrays containing the virtual disks you want to replicate are connected to each other through a Fibre Channel switch fabric and are accessible from a single management station. If either the primary or secondary virtual disk does not exist, you must create it before proceeding with remote replication setup. See Activating The Remote Replication Premium Feature And Creating Replication Virtual Disks and complete the necessary steps. If all virtual disks are created, skip to Creating A Remote Replication. Activating The Remote Replication Premium Feature And Creating Replication Virtual Disks To activate the Remote Replication feature and create the two replication repository virtual disks required, you can either: • Activate the feature, then create the two replication virtual disks from the total unconfigured capacity on the storage array, or • Activate the feature, then create the two replication virtual disks from the unconfigured capacity in an alreadyexisting disk group Activating And Creating Replication Repository Virtual Disks From The Storage Array To activate the Remote Replication feature and create the two replication repository virtual disks: 1. From the AMW, select Copy Services → Remote Replication → Activate. 2. In the Activate Remote Replication wizard, select Unconfigured capacity (create a new disk group) and click Next. The Activate Remote Replication - Create Disk Group wizard is displayed. 3. In Disk Group Name, type a unique name for the disk group. 4. Select one of the following to select a physical disk: - Automatic - The Storage Manager generates a list of available capacity and physical disk options for each available RAID level. - Manual - The Storage Manager generates a list of unselected physical disks. 5. Click Next. - If you selected Automatic, an empty Select Capacity table and a drop-down list of available RAID levels is displayed. Go to Step 5. - If you selected Manual, a populated Unselected Physical Disks table, empty Selected Physical Disks table, and a drop-down list of available RAID levels is displayed. 6. In the Select RAID level drop-down list, select the RAID level for the disk group. The Select capacity table displays the available virtual disks for the RAID level. 7. In the Select capacity table, select the physical disks and capacities for the new disk group, then click Next. The Preview (Activate Remote Replication) wizard is displayed. 8. Click Finish. The Completed (Activate Remote Replication) message is displayed. 135