Dell Storage Manager 2020 R1 Administrator's Guide

Add Replication for a NAS Volume

Adding replication creates a replication relationship between a source NAS volume and a target NAS volume. After adding replication, you can set up a replication policy to run according to a set schedule or on demand.

1. In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab.
3. In the File System view, expand NAS Volumes and select a NAS volume.
4. Click Create Replication. The Create Replication wizard starts.
   If Inline Data Reduction for Replication Optimization is enabled, NAS volume replication will try to optimize network utilization by reducing the amount of data copied. Dell recommends either Conditional Compression or Deduplication and Conditional Compression as the inline data reduction method because it dynamically enables compression for in-flight data based on system utilization. This option is completely independent of normal FluidFS data reduction (dedupe and compression). Data that is already reduced is rehydrated and then reduced in-flight on its way to the remote destination.
5. Select a remoteFluidFS cluster, a policy from Snapshot Retention Policy at the destination, and a node from Limit Replication Bandwidth According to QoS node (if enabled), and then click Next.
   The Select Remote NAS Volume page opens.
6. Specify a target NAS volume using one of the following options:
   • Select an existing NAS volume on the target FluidFS cluster.
   • Create a NAS volume on the target FluidFS cluster.

     Click Create Remote Volume. The Create NAS Volume dialog box opens. In the Name field, type a name for the NAS volume. In the Size field, type a size for the NAS volume that is the same size or larger than the source NAS volume. In the Folder field, select a parent folder for the NAS volume. Click OK to close the dialog box, then select the newly created NAS volume.

7. Click Finish.