Administrator Guide

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.
• Authorized USB disks provided by Dell technical support.
• Dell RD1000 disk bays with removable RD1000 disk cartridges
Requirements for USB Disks
In addition to the requirements for replication, the following requirements must be met to use USB disks.
Requirement
Description
Storage Centers Source and destination Storage Centers must be licensed for
asynchronous replication.
Portable Volume Disk Space One or more 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 PowerVault RD1000 Disk Bays
In addition to the requirements for replication, the following requirements must be met to use PowerVault RD1000 disk bays with removable
RD1000 disk cartridges.
Requirement
Description
Storage Centers Source and destination Storage Centers must be licensed for
asynchronous replication.
Portable Volume Disk Space One or more PowerVault RD1000 disk bays 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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