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The Data Protection Wizard can be accessed from a few places in Unipshere however it’s usually accessed from the Storage Groups view. Simply select the storage group you want to protect and click protect from the menu items across the top of the screen. The example below shows the protection wizard being triggered for a device group MetroDR_WP_SG this group has no SRDF protection at present and contains 5 volumes.
The next step is to select Setup High Availability with Disaster Recovery using SRDF/MetoDR as shown below.
The wizard shown blow, prompts the user to select the remote array for the METRO leg of the replication, in this case array 00197000783 is selected. Here the user has some choices to make on storage group naming on the remote arrays, for simplicity of management the storage group name is kept the same which is recommended. The user can also manually select the SRDF group or let the wizard automatically create as mentioned previously.
Once the options are filled in for the Metro session, the DR configuration needs to be configured, again users can select the DR array, manually or automatically select SRDF groups and optionally rename the storage group. The screenshot below shows the default options which are recommended.
Before completion, the wizard will run a SAN Scan, this will ensure that there are no connectivity issues and provide a review of the SRDF groups that will be created or used for the MetroDR setup.
Once the SAN scan has completed the ports and RDF groups to be used are displayed for the users’ approval.
The user can check both sites on the Metro and the DR side to ensure that they are happy to execute the wizard with the reviewed configuration, screenshots below show the selected ports on the Metro DR R2 and also the Disaster Recovery leg of the configuration.
Once the user has reviewed and is happy with the configuration the summary is displayed once more for a final check, no changes have been executed on the array at this point. Selecting “Run Now” as shown below will execute the tasks.
The protection wizard will now proceed to create all devices needed for the SRDF Metro and DR to replicate and place in newly created storage groups on the Metro R2 and DR array, if automatic SRDF group selection was selected the new SRDF groups will be created, and data synchronization will be started.
Once the wizard has run to completion the new environment will be available. The final step is to provision the storage groups at the Metro R2 and DR arrays to hosts for access to the volumes. When that step is completed, the MetroDR environment is fully ready for use providing the highest level of protection and availability for your most critical applications.