Administrator Guide

Replicating NAS Volumes
You can perform manual and scheduled replication operations, and pause, resume, delete, and monitor replication.
Add Replication for a NAS Volume
Adding replication creates a replication relationship between a source NAS volume and a target NAS volume. After adding replication,
you can set up a replication policy to run according to a set schedule or on demand.
1. Click the Storage view and select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab.
3. In the File System tab navigation pane, expand NAS Volumes and select a NAS volume.
4. In the right pane, click Create Replication. The Create Replication wizard starts.
If Inline Data Reduction for Replication Optimization is enabled, NAS volume replication will try to optimize network utilization
by reducing the amount of data copied.
Dell recommends either Conditional Compression or Deduplication and Conditional Compression as the inline data reduction
method because it dynamically enables compression for in-ight data based on system utilization. This option is completely
independent of normal FluidFS data reduction (dedupe and compression). Data that is already reduced is rehydrated, and then
reduced in-ight on its way to the remote destination.
5. Select a FluidFS cluster, choose a Snapshot Retention Policy, choose a QoS node (if desired) and click Next. The Select
Remote NAS Volume
page appears.
6. Specify a target NAS volume using one of the following options:
• Select an existing NAS volume on the target FluidFS cluster.
• Create a NAS volume on the target FluidFS cluster.
Click Create Remote Volume. The Create NAS Volume dialog box appears. In the Name eld, type a name for the NAS
volume. In the Size eld, type a size for the NAS volume that is the same size or larger than the source NAS volume. In the
Folder eld, select a parent folder for the NAS volume. Click OK to close the Create NAS Volume dialog box, then select
the newly created NAS volume.
7. Click Finish.
Delete Replication for a NAS Volume
Deleting replication for a NAS volume is similar to disabling replication for a NAS volume in that it does not disrupt replication
operations for other NAS volumes or the replication partnership between the source and target FluidFS clusters. After deleting
replication, the target NAS volume becomes a standalone, writable NAS volume. You can delete replication from either the source or
target
FluidFS cluster.
Prerequisites
• The target NAS volume must be promoted to a standalone NAS volume.
• You must remove replication schedules for the replication.
Steps
1. Click the Storage view and select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab.
3. In the File System tab navigation pane, expand NAS Volumes and select a NAS volume.
4. In the right pane, click the Replication tab.
5. Click Delete. The Delete dialog box appears.
6. Click OK.
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