- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Getting started
- System concepts
- Storage environment
- Virtual storage
- Linear storage
- Disk groups
- RAID levels
- ADAPT
- Disk group utilities
- SSDs
- Spares
- Pools
- Changing pool settings
- Volumes and volume groups
- Volume cache options
- Overcommitting volumes
- About automated tiered storage
- Initiators, hosts, and host groups
- CHAP
- Host ports
- Attaching volumes to hosts
- Operating with a single controller
- Snapshots
- Copying volumes or snapshots
- Reconstruction
- Quick rebuild
- Updating firmware
- Managed logs
- LDAP
- DNS settings
- Peer connections
- Replication
- Full disk encryption
- Rescanning disks
- Clearing disk metadata
- Data protection during failover to a single controller
- SupportAssist
- About APEX AIOps Infrastructure Observability
- Event history
- Audit logs
- System metrics
- Dashboard
- Provisioning
- Working with volumes
- Volumes table
- Data protection table
- Creating volumes
- Modifying volumes
- Deleting volumes and snapshots
- Attaching volumes to hosts
- Detaching volumes from hosts
- Expanding volumes
- Rolling back virtual volumes
- Creating snapshots
- Resetting snapshots
- Copying volumes or snapshots
- Aborting a volume copy
- Add data protection
- Creating a replication set
- Modifying a replication set
- Deleting a replication set
- Initiating or scheduling a replication
- Suspending a replication
- Aborting a replication set
- Resuming a replication
- Managing replication schedules
- Working with hosts
- Working with volumes
- Settings
- Maintenance
- Other management interfaces
- Administering a log-collection system
- Settings changed by restoring defaults
- System configuration limits
- Best practices
- Glossary of terms
Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Administrator's Guide
Primary volumes and volume groups
The volume, volume group, or snapshot that will be replicated is called the primary volume or volume group. It can belong to only one replication set.
Using a volume group for a replication set enables you to make sure that the contents of multiple volumes are synchronized at the same time. When a volume group is replicated, snapshots of all of the volumes are created simultaneously. In doing so, it functions as a consistency group, ensuring consistent copies of a group of volumes. The snapshots are then replicated as a group. Though the snapshots may differ in size, replication of the volume group is not complete until all of the snapshots are replicated.
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