Protecting existing volumes with asynchronous remote clone

Ops Center Administrator User Guide

Version

11.0.x

Audience

anonymous

Part Number

MK-99ADM001-23

You can protect existing volumes with asynchronous remote clone.

Register the data protection software in Administrator.
Set up the environment for asynchronous remote clone.

Access the Volumes window and select one or more attached volumes. Click Actions > Protect Volumes > Protect Volumes with Asynchronous Remote Clone.
Note: The choices for the following settings are generated from the information registered in Ops Center Protector.
- Secondary Storage System
- Source Journal
- Destination Journal
- Source Journal Pool
- Destination Journal Pool
- Storage Pool of Secondary Storage System for S-Vol
For Source Journal and Destination Journal, all journals with open type are displayed. See the information in the table and select the journal that meets requirements. If you select a journal that does not meet requirements, protection may fail.

Do not select a journal that is used by other Replication Groups.
Select the Secondary Storage System.
Choose whether to use an existing replication group.
Select a replication group from the options in the Replication Group list or enter a new name. Up to 26 alphanumeric characters, hyphens (-), and underscores (_) are allowed. If you select an existing replication group, the journal settings, the Storage Pool of Secondary Storage System for S-Vol and S-Vol Settings are selected automatically.
Note: The software can protect volumes with asynchronous remote clone in an existing replication group with the following conditions:
- P-VOL STATUS and S-VOL STATUS of all paired volumes in the replication group is PAIR.
- Status of the corresponding replication in Ops Center Protector is OK.
Choose whether to use existing journals.
- If you select Yes for Use Existing Journal, select Source Journal and Destination Journal in the dialog that opens when you click Select Journal.
- If you select No for Use Existing Journal, enter the settings for new journals:
  1. Select the Source Journal Pool.
  2. Select the Destination Journal Pool.
  3. Select the size.
  4. Select the volume unit: MiB, GiB, or TiB.
  5. (Optional) Enter the journal label.
Select the pool to use for S-Vols.
Select whether to configure S-Vol Settings manually. If you select Automatically Selected, the S-Vol Label, the S-Vol Data Reduction Share and S-Vol Capacity Saving are selected automatically.

Note: If you select S-Vol Settings with Automatically Selected, the label, Capacity Saving Type and Data Reduction Share will set the S-Vol to match the P-Vol as closely as possible by Ops Center Protector.
If you select User Selected for S-Vol Settings, enter the settings for S-Vols.
1. (Optional) Enter the S-Vol label.
2. Select the S-Vol Data Reduction Share.
3. Select the S-Vol Capacity Saving Type.
  Note: For VSP One B20, you cannot disable capacity saving.
Click Submit to start a job to protect volumes.

You can monitor the job in the Jobs page.

Note: If the job does not complete successfully, access the data protection software to remove the related resources (Block Host Node, Policy, and Data Flow) with the same name as the selected Replication Group.

When using an existing Replication group, remove the added P-Vol from the Block Host Node. To edit a Block Host Node created by Administrator in the data protection software, specify LDEV IDs in decimal format per line and not in hex format or range format.