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Live Volume Operations

The Dell Storage vSphere Web Client Plugin enables you to add, modify, and remove Live Volumes for

datastores and RDMs. You can also configure automatic failover and restore features.

The following sections describe how to create and manage Live Volumes:

• Add a Live Volume to a Datastore or RDM

• Modify a Live Volume Datastore or RDM Replication

• Remove a Live Volume Datastore or RDM Replication

• Configure Live Volume Automatic Failover and Restore

Add a Live Volume to a Datastore or RDM

The Dell Storage vSphere Web Client Plugin provides the ability to add Live Volumes to datastores and

RDMs.

Adding a Live Volume to a Datastore

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:

• Live Volume, Asynchronous

• Live Volume, Synchronous — High Availability

• Live Volume, Synchronous — High Consistency

6. Specify the replication settings and a target location.

7. Click Next.

The Live Volume Settings page opens.

8. (Optional) Select from the drop-down list of Secondary QoS Definitions.

9. (Optional) Clear the option labeled Automatically Swap Primary Storage Center.

10. If you keep the checkbox enabled for Automatically Swap Primary Storage Center, click Advanced.

The Advanced options are shown. Modify the values for the following options:

• Min. data written to secondary before swap

• Min. % of I/O on secondary before swap

• Min. time as primary before swap

11. (Optional) If you selected Live Volume, Synchronous – High Availability as the replication type in

step 5, select Failover Automatically to configure Live Volumes to automatically fail over when

service is disrupted. By default, Restore Automatically is also selected. For more information, see

Configure Live Volume Automatic Failover and Restore.

12. Specify a Live Volume Secondary Mapping target location.

13. Click Next.

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