Administrator Guide

– SC7020
– SC7020F
NOTE: SCv2000 and SCv3000 series controllers do not support Portable Volume.
Portable Volume Process
The general process of using portable volume disks includes:
1. Connecting the portable volume disk(s) to the source Storage Center.
2. Choosing the volumes that you want to transfer to the remote Storage Center. Selected volumes are copied to the portable
volume disk(s), creating a replication baseline for each volume.
3. When the copy process completes, move the portable volume disk(s) to the destination site and start the restore process on
the destination Storage Center.
4. After the restore is complete, the source and destination volumes are synchronized automatically.
Types of Portable Volume Disks
Two types of portable volume disks can be used to transfer replication data.
• Dell USB disks
• Dell RD1000 disk bay(s) with removable RD1000 disk cartridges
Requirements for Dell USB Disks
In addition to the requirements for replication, the following requirements must be met to use Dell USB disks.
Requirement
Description
Storage Manager Storage Manager 5.0 and higher.
Storage Centers
• Source and destination Storage Centers must be running
Storage Center 5.0.1 or higher.
• Source and destination Storage Centers must be licensed for
asynchronous replication.
Portable Volume Disk Space One or more Dell USB disks to provide storage for the volume
data to be transferred. The combined size of the disks must be
greater than or equal to the size of the volume data to be
transferred.
Requirements for Dell RD1000 Disk Bays
In addition to the requirements for replication, the following requirements must be met to use Dell RD1000 disk bay(s) with
removable RD1000 disk cartridges.
Requirement
Description
Storage Manager Storage Manager 6.2 and higher.
Storage Centers
• Source and destination Storage Centers must be running
Storage Center 6.2 or higher.
• Source and destination Storage Centers must be licensed for
asynchronous replication.
Portable Volume Disk Space One or more Dell RD1000 disk bay(s) with removable RD1000
disk cartridges to provide storage for the volume data to be
transferred. The combined size of the disk cartridges must be
greater than or equal to the size of the volume data to be
transferred.
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Storage Center Replications and Live Volumes