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Dell EMC Unity: How to find the Sync Replication Ports (User Correctable)

Summary: Some documentation references the Replication Ports on the Unity system, but does not tell the user how to find the ports.

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Instructions

How do I find what ports on the Unity array that are used for Synchronous Replication?

The whitepaper "Unity Replication Technologies" states that "Native synchronous block replication is performed over the first Fibre Channel (FC) port configured on the system."  Therefore, the replication interface should be the first configured fibre channel port. The following commands can be used to verify.

With Unisphere CLI (uemcli), you can easily locate the synchronous block replication port by running the /remote/sys show -detail command.  This command will return information for the local system, along with all the systems that replication connections have been established with.  A sample output of this command with only the relevant information displayed is shown below.

uemcli -d ip_address -u username -p password /remote/sys show  detail

Bottom of output
Synchronous FC ports = spa_fc4, spb_fc4
or
Synchronous FC ports = spa_iom0_fc0, spb_iom0_fc0

In the Unity logs (Service Data or Data collects) this information can be found in the following locations:
\spa\cmd_outputs\repv2\uemcli_remotesys.txt
or
\spb\cmd_outputs\repv2\uemcli_remotesys.txt

You can use the Unisphere System View section to locate the physical ports on the array by click on the ports.
The information about the port you have clicked on will display on the right side of the screen or at the bottom, depending on the Unity OE version. In the example, FC port 4 on SPB is highlighted (first FC port on this particular system):

kA5j00000008VOpCAM_1_0

Affected Products

Dell EMC Unity Family

Products

Dell Unity 300, Dell EMC Unity 300F, Dell EMC Unity 350F, Dell EMC Unity 400, Dell EMC Unity 400F, Dell EMC Unity 450F, Dell EMC Unity 500, Dell EMC Unity 500F, Dell EMC Unity 550F, Dell EMC Unity 600, Dell EMC Unity 600F, Dell EMC Unity 650F , Dell EMC Unity Family |Dell EMC Unity All Flash, Dell EMC Unity Family, Dell EMC Unity Hybrid ...
Article Properties
Article Number: 000022489
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 11 Aug 2022
Version:  4
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