Administrator Guide
Remote Storage Centers and Replication QoS
A remote Storage Center is a Storage Center that is congured to communicate with the local Storage Center over the Fibre Channel
and/or iSCSI transport protocols. Replication Quality of Service (QoS) denitions control how bandwidth is used to send replication and
Live Volume data between local and remote Storage Centers.
Connecting to Remote Storage Centers
A remote Storage Center is a Storage Center that is congured to communicate with the local Storage Center over the Fibre Channel
and/or iSCSI transport protocols.
Storage Centers can be connected to each other using Fibre Channel, iSCSI, or both. Once connected, volumes can be replicated from one
Storage Center to the other, or Live Volumes can be created using both Storage Centers.
Connecting Storage Centers Using Fibre Channel
When Storage Centers are connected to the same Fibre Channel fabric and zoning is congured correctly, each Storage Center
automatically appears as a remote Storage Center; no additional conguration steps are required.
1 Connect both Storage Centers to the same Fibre Channel fabric.
2 Congure Fibre Channel zoning to allow the Storage Centers to communicate. When communication is established, each Storage
Center automatically appears as a remote Storage Center.
Connecting Storage Centers Using iSCSI
The following tasks describe how to add and remove iSCSI connections to remote Storage Centers.
NOTE
: For user interface reference information, click Help.
Congure an iSCSI Connection for Remote Storage Systems
Add an iSCSI connection to a remote Storage Center or PS Group if you want to transfer replication and/or Live Volume data using the
iSCSI protocol.
Prerequisites
• The Storage Center or PS Group for which you want to congure iSCSI connections must be added to Storage Manager.
• Remote connections from Storage Center to PS Group require virtual fault domains.
• If the local Storage Center iSCSI ports are congured for virtual port mode and the ports are located behind a router that performs
network address translation (NAT), NAT port forwarding must be congured for the iSCSI fault domain.
• If you intend to use Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) authentication for iSCSI replication trac, the iSCSI fault
domains that are used for replication on each Storage Center have CHAP enabled.
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NOTE
: PS Groups do not support Live Volume.
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