Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Administrator's Guide

Creating a replication set

A replication set specifies the components of a replication. You create replication sets using the Data Protection Configuration wizard.

You can access this wizard from the Provisioning > Volumes panel. For more information, see Add data protection.

Performing this action creates the replication set and the infrastructure for the replication set. For a selected volume, snapshot, or volume group, the action creates a secondary volume or volume group and the internal snapshots required to support replications. By default, the secondary volume or volume group and infrastructure are created in the pool corresponding to the one for the primary volume or volume group (A or B). Optionally, you can select the other pool.

If a peer connection is not already created, the Data Protection Configuration wizard prompts you to create one. A replication set can specify only one peer connection and pool. When creating a replication set, communication between the peer connection systems must be operational during the entire process.

If a replication set is deleted, the internal snapshots created by the system for replication are also deleted. After the replication set is deleted, the primary and secondary volumes can be used like any other base volumes or volume groups.