Dell PowerScale SyncIQ: Architecture, Configuration, and Considerations
Executive summary
Introduction
Deployment topologies
Use cases
Architecture and processes
Data replication
Configuring a SyncIQ policy
Impacts of modifying SyncIQ policies
SyncIQ performance rules
SnapshotIQ and SyncIQ
SyncIQ design considerations
Failover and failback
Superna Eyeglass DR Edition
SyncIQ and CloudPools
SyncIQ security
SyncIQ bandwidth reservations
Monitoring, alerting, reporting, and optimizing performance
Administration
SyncIQ replication and data reduction
16 TiB large file support and SyncIQ implications
OneFS version compatibility
SmartLock compatibility
Conclusion
Appendix A: Failover and failback steps
Appendix B: SyncIQ encryption with self-signed certificates
Appendix C: Configuring cascaded replication
Appendix D: Configuring custom replication
Appendix E: Technical support and resources
Introduction
Introduction
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PowerScale SyncIQ offers powerful, efficient, and easy-to-manage data replication for disaster recovery, business continuity, remote collaboration, disk-to-disk backup, and remote disk archive.
The following figure illustrates the typical SyncIQ architecture — replicating data from a primary to a target PowerScale cluster which can be local or remote. SyncIQ can also use the primary cluster as a target in order to create local replicas.
