Creating Replication Relationships - Dell DR4000 Administrator's Manual

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Creating Replication Relationships

To create a new replication relationship:
1 Select StorageReplication.
The Replication page is displayed, and identifies any existing replication
container entries by:
• Local Container Name
• Role (target or source)
• Remote Container Name
• Peer State (online or offline)
• Bandwidth (replication bandwidth limit)
NOTE:
Bandwidth is the replication bandwidth limit that you can set as
kilobytes per second (KBps), megabytes per second (MBps), gigabytes per
second (GBps), or as an unlimited bandwidth (default).
2 Click Create in the options bar.
The Create Replication dialog is displayed.
3 In Step 1: Select a local container, click to select a local container from the
available containers list.
4 In Step 2: Select a role, select Source or Target.
5 In Step 3: Remote container settings, select one of these two options:
• Create container on remote system
• Map to container on remote system
6 In Username, type the valid user name for the peer system (for example,
administrator).
7 In Password, type the valid password for the peer system (for example,
St0r@ge!).
8 In Peer System, type the IP address that represents the peer system (for
example, 10.10.10.10).
9 In Peer Container Name, type a name for the new container (for example,
StorageReplica1), or chose from an existing container on the peer system.
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