Dell PowerFlex Appliance with PowerFlex 4.x Administration Guide

Create the remote consistency group

1. Log in to PowerFlex Manager.
2. Click Protection > RCGs.
3. Click + Add RCG.
4. Enter the RCG Name.
5. Enter the number of RPO (recovery point objective) minutes. This is the amount of time of data loss that is tolerated if replication between the systems is compromised. The default is 60 seconds.
6. Select Source Protection Domain.
7. Select the Target System and Target Protection Domain.
8. Click Next.
9. Select auto or manual provisioning:
   1. Auto provisioning (default): Relevant if there are no volumes at the target system, select the source volumes to protect, and the target volumes are automatically created.
   2. Manual provisioning: Relevant if there are volumes at the target system, select the source volumes to protect, and select the same size volume at the target system to create a pair between the volumes.
10. Click Next.
11. Click the volume from the Source column and then click the same size volume from the Target column.
12. Select the target storage pool.
13. Click Add Pair. The volume pair is added.
14. Click Next.
15. (Optional) To map a host on the target side:
16. Click Next.
17. Click Add and Activate or Add (and activate separately).
    NOTE:Add and Activate begins replication immediately. Add will create the RCG but not start replication. Replication can be deferred until manually activated.
    After the volumes begin replication, the final status should be OK and the Constancy state will be Consistent after the initial volume copy completes.