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Create an empty SRDF group with a group label indicating the SG to be protected as follows:
Note: The reason we are pre-creating the SRDF group labels and only later selecting them during SRDF/Metro protection step is because when we prepare them in advance, we can select the exact ports we want to use and set the labels to match their proposed usage. Alternatively, it is possible to skip this step and use an ad-hoc SRDF group creation during SRDF/Metro protection step, however, it makes that step more complex.
Figure 8. Create empty SRDF Group on local side