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To create a replication set and optionally start or schedule replication
1. In the Configuration View panel, right-click a volume and select Provisioning > Replicate Volume.
2. In the main panel, set the destination options:
• Secondary System. Select a storage system to replicate the volume to.
• Secondary Volume. Select an existing vdisk or an existing replication-prepared volume to be the
secondary volume. Vdisks listed for selection have enough space for the replicated volume and do
not contain a volume with a conflicting name (rprimary-volume-name) or a snap pool with a
conflicting name (sprprimary-volume-name).
3. Select the link type used between the two systems.
4. If you want to start replication now:
a. Select the Initiate Replication and Now options.
b. Optionally change the default replication image name. A name is case sensitive; cannot already
exist in a vdisk; cannot include a comma, double quote, or backslash; and can have a maximum of
20 bytes.
c. Continue with step
5. If you want to schedule replication:
a. Select the Initiate Replication and Scheduled options.
b. Set the options:
• Replication image prefix. Optionally change the default prefix to identify images created by this
schedule. The prefix is case sensitive; cannot include a comma, double quote, or backslash; and
can have a maximum of 14 bytes.
• Replication Mode. Specifies whether to replicate a new snapshot of the volume to the remote
system, or to replicate the last (most recent existing) snapshot of the volume to the remote system.
• Replication images to Retain. Select the number of replication images to retain. When the task
runs, the retention count is compared with the number of existing replication images:
• Whether the retention count has been reached or not, a new replication image is created.
• If the retention count has been reached, the volume's oldest replication image that was
created by this schedule and is neither being replicated, nor a current sync point, nor a
queued snapshot, is deleted.
• If there is more than one queued snapshot, only the oldest queued snapshot is retained. It is
retained to serve as the source for the next scheduled replication to create a replication
image from.
This setting applies to the primary volume only; for the secondary volume, replication images
will accumulate until either the secondary vdisk's space limit is reached or the maximum number
of images is reached, after which the oldest image will be deleted as new images are created.
• Start Schedule. Specify a date and a time in the future to be the first instance when the
scheduled task will run, and to be the starting point for any specified recurrence. Date must use
the format yyyy-mm-dd. Time must use the format hh:mm followed by either AM, PM, or 24H
(24-hour clock). For example, 13:00 24H is the same as 1:00 PM.
• Recurrence. Specify the interval at which the schedule should run. Set the interval to at least 30
minutes. The default is 30 minutes.
• Time Constraint. Specify a time range within which the schedule should run.
• Date Constraint. Specify days when the schedule should run. Ensure that this constraint includes
the Start Schedule date.
• End Schedule. Specify when the schedule should stop running.
c. Continue with step
6. If you do not want to start or schedule replication, clear the Initiate Replication checkbox. The
replication set will still be created and you can replicate the volume at a later time.
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