Dell FluidFS V3 NAS Solutions For PowerVault NX3500, NX3600, And NX3610Administrator's Guide

Phase 1 — Build Replication Partnership Between Source Cluster A And Backup Cluster B

Log on to cluster A.
Set up replication partnership between source cluster A and backup cluster B. For more information on setting up replication partners, see Adding a Replication Partnership .
Create a replication policy for all the source volumes in cluster A to target volumes in cluster B.
- NOTE: Replication policy is a one to one match on a volume basis, for example:
  Source volume A1 (cluster A) to target volume B1 (cluster B)
  
  Source volume A2 (cluster A) to target volume B2 (cluster B)
  
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  Source volume A n (cluster A) to target volume B n (cluster B)
- NOTE: FluidFS v2 supports auto generate target volume during addition of the replication policy. For FluidFS 1.0, you must create the target volumes in cluster B and make sure that the volume size is big enough to accommodate the corresponding source volume data in cluster A.
Start the replication scheduler to ensure that at least one successful replication has occurred for all the source volumes in cluster A. If the replication fails, fix the problems encountered and restart the replication process. This ensures that all source volumes in cluster A have at least one successful replication copy in cluster B. Set up a regular replication schedule, so the target volumes in cluster B always have most up to date replication copy for cluster A.

CAUTION: Replication restore is not a complete BMR restore, settings such as network configuration (client, SAN, and IC) cannot be backed up and restored using the replication method. Note all cluster A settings (for use when restoring cluster A) including network configuration, cluster wide settings such as volume name, alert settings, and so on for future use. If the system restore operation fails to restore these settings, you can manually restore the cluster A settings back to their original values.