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EMC – How to set up Concurrent SRDF

Concurrent SRDF could be used in a couple of scenarios such as setting up a temporary replication to another array in order to migrate large amount of data, or a permanent solution as part of DR strategy. Below are the steps that should generally be followed in order to set up the replication for a […]

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EMC – SRDF Status

This post illustrates the outcome of various SRDF commands, prerequisites to run them, and a one liner description of various opertations. Various Pair Status: Synchronized – R1 and R2s are in synchronized state, and both have same content with no invalid tracks between R1/R2. SyncInProg – Synchronization is underway between R1 and R2 because there […]

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EMC – SRDF Theory

EMC SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility) is a replication product which can be used to replicate the data from one array to second array. Primary use is for business continuity/disaster recovery. Other use is migrating the data from one array to another. This post contains brief explanation of terms associated with SRDF, its operational use, […]

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