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The Ready to Complete page opens.

7. Click Finish.

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Create and Manage Replications and Live Volumes

The Dell Storage vSphere Web Client Plugin supports two basic models for migrating data between Storage Centers:

• Replications

• Live Volumes

A replication copies volume data from one Storage Center to another Storage Center to safeguard data. A Live Volume is a replicating

volume that can be mapped and active on a source and destination Storage Center at the same time.

For information about replications and Live Volumes, see the Dell Storage Manager Administrator’s Guide.

Use the plugin to add and manage replications and Live Volumes to VMFS datastores and RDMs on Dell storage. You can use the plugin

convert a replication to a Live Volume and vice versa.

Replication Operations

Use the vSphere Web Client Plugin to add, modify, and remove replications for datastores and RDMs.

Create a Datastore or RDM Replication

Use the Dell Storage vSphere Web Client Plugin to create datastores and RDM replications.

Replicating a Datastore

Use the vSphere Web Client Plugin to replicate a datastore.

Prerequisites

If you are using iSCSI connections for replications, the following conditions must be met:

• The destination Storage Center must be defined as an iSCSI Remote System on the source Storage Center.

• The source Storage Center must be defined as an iSCSI Remote Connection on the destination Storage Center.

See the Dell Storage Manager Administrator’s Guide for instructions on configuring iSCSI connections between Storage Centers .

• At least one Quality of Service (QoS) definition must be set up on the source Storage Center for replication.

See the Dell Storage Manager Administrator’s Guide for instructions on creating QoS definitions

Steps

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:

• Replication, Asynchronous

• Replication, Synchronous—High Availability

• Replication, Synchronous—High Consistency

6. Specify other replication settings and a target location as in Replication Options

7. Click Next.

The Ready to Complete page opens.

8. Click Finish.

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