Administrator Guide

Using Portable Volume Disks to Transfer Replication Data................................................................................ 538
Managing Replication Baselines and Portable Volume Disks............................................................................. 540
Storage Center Live Volumes.......................................................................................................................................545
Behavior of Volume QoS Settings in Live Volume Operations...........................................................................545
Live Volume Requirements..................................................................................................................................... 545
Live Volume Types................................................................................................................................................... 546
Live Volume Icon......................................................................................................................................................546
Live Volume Roles....................................................................................................................................................546
Automatic Failover for Live Volumes.....................................................................................................................548
Managed Replications for Live Volumes...............................................................................................................552
Creating Live Volumes............................................................................................................................................ 553
Modifying Live Volumes..........................................................................................................................................555
Modifying Live Volumes with Automatic Failover.................................................................................................561
Live Volume ALUA................................................................................................................................................... 562
Monitoring Live Volumes........................................................................................................................................ 564
15 Storage Center DR Preparation and Activation.........................................................................................567
How Disaster Recovery Works.....................................................................................................................................567
Step 1: A Volume is Replicated to a DR Site......................................................................................................... 567
Step 2: The Source Site Goes Down.....................................................................................................................568
Step 3: An Administrator Activates Disaster Recovery.......................................................................................568
Step 4: Connectivity is Restored to the Source Site.......................................................................................... 569
Step 5: An Administrator Restores the Source Volume......................................................................................569
Disaster Recovery Administration Options..................................................................................................................571
Preparing for Disaster Recovery...................................................................................................................................571
Saving and Validating Restore Points.....................................................................................................................571
Predening Disaster Recovery Settings for Replications....................................................................................572
Test Activating Disaster Recovery.........................................................................................................................573
Activating Disaster Recovery....................................................................................................................................... 575
Types of Disaster Recovery Activation for Live Volumes....................................................................................575
Disaster Recovery Activation Limitations..............................................................................................................576
Planned vs Unplanned Disaster Recovery Activation..........................................................................................576
Disaster Recovery Activation Procedures.............................................................................................................576
Activating Disaster Recovery for PS Series Group Replications..............................................................................579
Restarting Failed Replications......................................................................................................................................580
Restart Replication for Multiple Restore Points...................................................................................................580
Restart a Replication for a Single Restore Point..................................................................................................580
Restoring Replications and Live Volumes.................................................................................................................... 581
Volume Restore Options..........................................................................................................................................581
Volume Restore Limitations.....................................................................................................................................581
Restoring a Live Volume and a Managed Replication.......................................................................................... 581
Volume Restore Procedures...................................................................................................................................582
Deleting Restore Points................................................................................................................................................ 583
16 Remote Data Collector............................................................................................................................. 585
Remote Data Collector Management......................................................................................................................... 585
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