Administrator Guide

4. Click OK.
Allow a Live Volume to Automatically Swap Roles
Live Volumes can be congured to swap primary and secondary volumes automatically when certain conditions are met to avoid
situations in which the secondary volume receives more IO than the primary volume.
1. Click the Replications & Live Volumes view.
2. On the Live Volumes tab, select the Live Volume, then click Edit Settings. The Edit Live Volume dialog box appears.
3. Select the Automatically Swap Roles check box.
4. (Optional) Modify the default swap behavior by editing the Min Amount Before Swap, Min Secondary Percent Before Swap
(%), and Min Time As Primary Before Swap (Minutes) elds. These elds are described in the online help.
5. Click OK.
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Automatic Swap Role for Live Volumes
Revert a Live Volume to a Replication
If the remote Storage Center does not need to accept IO for the Live Volume, you can convert the Live Volume to a conventional
replication.
About this task
If the Live Volume manages a replication, the managed replication is converted into a non-managed replication when the Live Volume
is reverted.
Steps
1. Click the Replications & Live Volumes view.
2. On the Live Volumes tab, select the Live Volume, then click Revert to Replication. The Revert to Replication dialog box
appears.
3. Click OK.
Pause a Live Volume
Pausing a Live Volume temporarily prevents volume data from being copied from the primary volume to the secondary volume. A
Live Volume can be paused only if replication to the secondary Storage Center is in progress.
1. Click the Replications & Live Volumes view.
2. On the Live Volumes tab, select the Live Volume, then click Pause. The Pausing Live Volume dialog box appears.
3. Click OK.
Resume a Paused Replication
Resume a paused replication to allow volume data to be copied to the remote Storage Center.
1. Click the Replications & Live Volumes view.
2. On the Replications tab, select the paused replication, then click Resume. The Resuming Replication dialog box appears.
3. Click OK.
Set Threshold Alert Denitions for a Live Volume
Congure one or more Threshold Alert Denitions for a Live Volume if you want to be notied when specic thresholds are reached,
such as the amount of replication data waiting to be transferred or the percentage of replication data that has been transferred.
1. Click the Replications & Live Volumes view.
2. On the Live Volumes tab, select the Live Volume, then click Set Threshold Alert Denitions. The Set Threshold Alert
Denitions dialog box appears.
3. Select the alert denition for which you want to congure a threshold alert, then click Create Threshold Denition. The Create
Threshold Denition dialog box appears.
4. Congure the threshold denition attributes as needed, then click OK. These attributes are described in the online help.
5. Click OK to close the Set Threshold Alert Denitions dialog box.
Storage Center Replications and Live Volumes
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