Unable to add devices to RDF group

[Jayan3]

below is the error I am getting when adding a BCV+R1 device to a SRDF group.How can I bypass this issue.

symld -g RDFG1 add dev 1448

"Cannot add the device to the device group because it is a BCV device"

grep 1448 symrdf_list.txt
1448 02D7 B-R1:1 RW RW NR S.. 0 58 RW RW Split

thanks
Jayan

[SKT2]

U need at least a RDF1 type device.. Did u check the existing devices in the DG?.

[xe2sdc]

Can you please show output of

symdg show RDFG1

ThX!

[Jayan3]

RDFG1 is a new RDF1 group and all the devices given are of the type BCV+R1. How will I add these devices to the group.I am able to est/split by specifying the devices directly with symrdf command.

[dynamox]

did you try using symbcv command ?

symbcv -g group_name add dev 0BAD -sid 123

[xe2sdc]

I guess your BAD device will love symbcv command ...

You deserve a green star 😄

[dynamox]

woohoo ..i need one really BAD

[DineshP1]

I have faced the same issue. I was working on pre-work to migrate SYMDEV 77AD (R1) to target VMAX using SRDF.

But I was NOT able to add SYMDEV 77AD to DG . It was failing with below error:

"Cannot add the device to device group because it is a BCV Device".

When I checked device configuration I found "RDF1-BCV+TDEV". As device group was RDF1 type and device was RDF1-BCV so I thought of Migrating it using file rather than Device Group.

Work around : create a temp file Pair.Txt and run symrdf commands on that file rather than on Device group.

################

Pair.txt

#R1     R2

77AD   00EF

################

symrdf -rdfg 135 -f /home/puny/Pair.txt -sid 1950 query

symrdf -rdfg 135 -f /home/puny/Pair.txt -sid 1950 establish -full