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Dell EMC Solutions Enabler 9.2 SRDF Family CLI User Guide

Restrictions: Device types and consistency modes allowed for add operations to a concurrent RDF1 consistency group

Before you perform this procedure, review Enabling SRDF consistency protection for concurrent SRDF devices.

The following table lists the allowable device types for a dynamic modify add operation on a concurrent RDF1 composite group enabled for consistency protection at the composite group level and the SRDF group name level.

Table 1. Allowable device types for adding devices to a concurrent RDF1 CG
Device type in staging area Enabled at CG level Enabled at SRDF group name level
Simple R1

(R1->R2)

Allowed Allowed
Concurrent R11 Not allowed Only allowed if each mirror is assigned to a different SRDF group
Cascaded R1 Not allowed Not allowed

The following table lists the allowable consistency modes for the SRDF groups of a concurrent CG.

Table 2. Supported consistency modes for concurrent SRDF groups
SRDF group 1 (first mirror) SRDF group 2 (second mirror)
RDF-ECA RDF-ECA
RDF-ECA MSC
RDF-ECA Not enabled
Not enabled RDF-ECA
MSC RDF-ECA
MSC MSC
MSC Not enabled
Not enabled MSC

Examples

In this example, device 20 is added to two independently-enabled SRDF groups of a CG.

The following image shows the staging area shared by array 306, 311, and 402 in a concurrent SRDF configuration:

Figure 1. Adding a device to independently-enabled SRDF groups of a concurrent CG

The staging area contains devices 20 and 21.

SRDF groups 70 and 71 of ConCG operate in different SRDF modes. They were enabled independently for consistency protection using the following SRDF group names:

Boston: device pairs operate in SRDF/S mode and are set for RDF-ECA consistency protection.

New York: device pairs operate in SRDF/A mode and are enabled for MSC consistency protection.

To add only device 20 from the staging area into SRDF groups 70 and 71 of ConCG:

symcg -cg ConCG modify -add -sid 306 -stg_rdfg 80,81 -devs 20 -cg_rdfg 70,71 

To check if the devices were added to ConCG:

symrdf -cg ConCG query -detail

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