Dell EMC Solutions Enabler 9.2 SRDF Family CLI User Guide

In an SRDF/Metro configuration that uses the vWitness method, you maintain a list of vWitness definitions on each of the participating arrays. You can use SYMCLI commands to add, enable, modify, remove, suspend, and view vWitness definitions. as the following sections show.

The Dell SRDF/Metro vWitness Configuration Guide contains more information on how to set up and manage a vWitness configuration. That includes information on how to manage vWitness instances.

Value of command options

The commands use various options and these sections use the following conventions to denote their values in syntax definitions:

SymmID

The local storage system.

WitnessName

A name for a vWitness definition.

• The name has up to 12 characters and starts with an alphabetic character.
• The remainder of the name can contain alphanumeric characters, underscores, and hyphens.
• The name is not case-sensitive, but the system preserves the case.

IPorDNS

The IP address or the fully qualified DNS name of a vWitness instance. The address or name has a maximum of 128 characters.

Array access rights and user authorization

All the commands, except for list and show, require array access rights of SYMCFG and user authorization of Storage Admin.