Administrator Guide

Live Volume Operations

The Dell Storage vSphere Web Client Plugin enables you to add, modify, and remove Live Volumes for datastores and RDMs. You can also

congure automatic failover and restore features.

Add a Live Volume to a Datastore or RDM

Use the Dell Storage vSphere Web Client Plugin to add Live Volumes to datastores and RDMs.

Adding a Live Volume to a Datastore

Use the Dell Storage vSphere Web Client Plugin to add Live Volumes to datastore.

1 Select a datastore to replicate.

2 Select Actions > Dell Storage Actions > Replications/Live Volume > Add.

The Add Replication/Live Volume wizard starts.

3 Select the target (destination) Storage Center.

4 Click Next.

The Replication Options page opens.

5 Specify one of the following replication types:

• Live Volume, Asynchronous

• Live Volume, Synchronous — High Availability

• Live Volume, Synchronous — High Consistency

6 Specify the replication settings and a target location.

7 Click Next.

The Live Volume Settings page opens.

8 (Optional) Select from the drop-down list of Secondary QoS Denitions.

9 (Optional) Clear the option labeled Automatically Swap Primary Storage Center.

10 If you keep the checkbox enabled for Automatically Swap Primary Storage Center, click Advanced.

The Advanced options are shown. Modify the values for the following options:

• Min. data written to secondary before swap

• Min. % of I/O on secondary before swap

• Min. time as primary before swap

11 (Optional) If you selected Live Volume, Synchronous – High Availability as the replication type in step 5, select Failover

Automatically to congure Live Volumes to automatically fail over when service is disrupted. By default, Restore Automatically is also

selected. For more information, see Congure Live Volume Automatic Failover and Restore.

12 Specify a Live Volume Secondary Mapping target location.

13 Click Next.

The Ready to Complete page opens with a summary of the selections that you made.

14 Click Finish.