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Metro Volume uses a symmetric active-active architecture. Read and write I/O can occur directly on either PowerStore cluster hosting the Metro Volume. Bi-directional synchronous replication ensures the volumes on both clusters are synchronized during normal operation. The screenshots below illustrate the workflow steps within SRM to create protection groups, recovery plan, and planned migration with Metro Volume protected workloads.