Dell EMC PowerVault MD 34XX/38XX Series Storage Arrays Administrator's Guide

Activating Remote Replication premium features

1. In the AMW of the local storage array, select the Storage & Copy Services tab.
2. Select Copy Services > Remote Replication > Activate.
3. If both Remote Replication and Remote Replication (Legacy) premium features are supported on your storage array, select Remote Replication.
4. If you had selected standard Remote Replication, click Finish.
   The Premium feature activation is complete.
5. If you had selected Remote Replication (Legacy), in the Create Repositories window, select where the replication repository virtual disks for the Remote Replication (Legacy) feature must reside. Select one of the following:
   • Free capacity on existing disk pool or disk group—If this option is selected, a corresponding disk pool or disk group must be selected.
   • Unconfigured capacity on a new disk pool or disk group—If this option is selected, choose either Disk Pool or Disk Group.
   • Click Next.
   The Create Disk Pool wizard or the Create Disk Group wizard is displayed.
6. Click OK.
   The Remote Replication Activated window is displayed. The system performs when the Remote Replication premium feature is activated:

   • Logs out all hosts currently using the highest numbered Fibre Channel host port on the RAID controller modules.
   • Reserves the highest numbered Fibre Channel host port on the RAID controller modules for replication data transmissions.
   • Rejects all host communication to this RAID controller module host port as long as the replication feature is active.
   • If the Remote Replication (Legacy) feature has been activated, the two replication repositories are created.

   NOTE: Repeat these steps to activate the remote replication premium features on the remote storage array.