Dell Solutions Enabler 10.0.0 TimeFinder/Clone CLI User Guide

Figure 1 shows a production host locally connected to two arrays (A and B). A composite group is defined on the production host and includes source devices and target devices from each array. The target devices can be standard devices or BCV devices. Another locally connected host allows access to the clone targets.

Although clone copy operations might normally be performed from the production host (Figure 1) because the composite group is defined there in its SYMAPI database, there are methods that would allow you to control clone operations from another locally connected host like the target host. One way is to copy the composite group definition to another host. A more efficient method is to enable Group Naming Services (GNS), which automatically propagates the composite group definition to the arrays and other locally attached hosts that are running the GNS daemon.

The following steps explain how to setup a composite group that spans two arrays as shown in Figure 1: