Users Guide

• Delete Restore Point—Select this option if you want to delete the restore point for the replication.
• Recycle Destination Volume—Select this option if you want to move the destination volume to the Recycle Bin on the
destination Storage Center.
• Delete Destination Volume—Select this option if you do not want to retain the deleted destination volume in the Recycle Bin—
not recommended.
CAUTION: If you delete the destination volume, you cannot recover the volume on the destination (target)
Storage Center. The volume is permanently deleted.
6. Click Next.
The Ready to Complete page opens.
7. Click Finish.
Live Volume Operations
The Dell Storage vSphere Client Plugin enables you to add, modify, and remove Live Volumes for datastores. You can also configure
automatic failover and restore features.
Adding a Live Volume to a Datastore
Use the Dell Storage vSphere Client Plugin to add Live Volumes to datastore.
Steps
1. Select a datastore to replicate.
2. Select Actions > Dell Storage Actions > Replications/Live Volume > Add.
The Add Replica or Live Volume wizard starts.
3. Select the target (destination) Storage Center.
4. Click Next.
The Volume Settings page opens.
5. Select the volume settings:
• Storage Type—A Storage Type is a pool of storage with a single datapage size. The Storage Type is set at the disk folder level,
and once set it cannot be changed without assistance from technical support. (This entry appears only if the preferences are set in
Storage Center).
• Storage Profile—A Storage Profile controls how the Storage Center manages volume data.
○ Recommended (All Tiers)—Select this option for most volumes. The Recommended profile allows the system to
automatically progress data between and across all storage tiers based on the type of data and usage.
○ High Priority (Tier 1)—Select this option to force volume data to remain in tier 1 storage.
○ Medium Priority (Tier 2)—Select this option to force volume data to remain in tier 2 storage.
○ Low Priority (Tier 3)—Select this option to force volume data to remain in tier 3 storage.
• Data Reduction Profile—Data Reduction uses compression and deduplication to decrease the amount of disk space that is used
by volume data. Compression reduces the amount of space that is used by a volume by encoding data. Deduplication finds
duplicate pages and removes them, conserving the disk space that would be used by additional copies. When deduplication is used,
compression is also applied to a volume.
• Cache Settings—Select or clear the Read Cache Enabled and Write Cache Enabled check boxes to set the default cache
settings for the new volume.
• Selected Volume QoS Profile—Accept the Volume QoS Profile Default or click Change it to select a different QoS Profile.
6. Click Next.
The Replication Options page opens.
7. Select the replication settings:
• Replication Type:
○ Live Volume, Asynchronous
○ Live Volume, Synchronous—High Availability
○ Live Volume, Synchronous—High Consistency
• QoS definition—Select a predefined QoS definition for the replication.
• Replicate Active Snapshot—Select this option to copy all writes from the active snapshot area of the volume. This option
cannot be disabled for synchronous replication.
• Deduplication—Select this option to copy only the changed portions of the snapshot history on the source volume, rather than
all data captured in each snapshot. Deduplication saves bandwidth but is more resource intensive for the Storage Center.
• Select the Replication Target Location.
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