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Metro Volume utilizes a symmetric active-active architecture. Symmetric active-active architecture ensures:
1) No additional latency impact for read I/Os
2) Write I/Os will have single hop mirror overhead latency.
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 & planned migration with Metro Volume protected workloads.
Metro Volume Protection
Once a Metro Volume is set up in PowerStore Manager, the Metro Volume appears in Metro overview screen Protection > Metro.