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Dell PowerFlex Appliance with PowerFlex 3.x Administration Guide

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Replication direction and mapping

Replication direction and mapping according to subsequent remote consistency group (RCG) operations and possible actions are as follows:

Subsequent RCG operations Possible actions Replication direction / access Access to volumes
Normal Switchover / test failover / failover

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A to B Access to volumes is allowed only through the source (system A)
After failover Reverse / restore

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N/A - data is not replicated By default, access to the volume is allowed through the original target (system B).

It is possible to enable access through the original source (system A).

After failover + reverse
NOTE:Switchover and test failover are only possible after the peers are synchronized.
Switchover / test failover / failover

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B to A Access to the volumes is allowed only through the original target (system B)
After failover + restore
NOTE:Switchover and test failover are only possible after the peers are synchronized.
Switchover / test failover / failover

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A to B Access to the volumes is allowed only through the source (system A)
After switchover Switchover / test failover / failover

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B to A Access to the volumes is allowed only through the original target (system B)
After test failover Switchover / test failover / failover

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A to B Access to the volumes is allowed through both systems (system A and system B)

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