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tively stop all write operations to both source and target volumes if target vol
ume become unavailable, or if all SRDF links become unavailable. User will need
to manually re-enable the source volumes. While such a shutdown temporarily halt
s production processing, domino modes can prevent data integrity exposure that c
auses the inconsistent image on the target volume.
How the SRDF domino mode works?
Write I/O received from host/server at the source
The I/O fails to transmit to the target
Both Source and Target become unavailable
How many R2 devices can be paired with one R1 device concurrently?
Two
What are the restrictions of SRDF device group?
All devices in a disk group must be in the same Symmetrix ICDA
All devices must be of the same type (RDF1, RDF2, Regular)
A device can only belong to a single Device Group per SYMAPI database
How do you check the connectivity status of SRDF link?
Symrdf sid "SymID" ping
Symrdf sid "SymID" -RA list all
What are the disaster recovery operations?
Failover: from the source side to the target side, switching data processing to
the target side.
Failback: from the target side to the source side by switching data processing t
o the source side.
Update: the source side after a failover while the target side may still be oper
ational to its local host.
How will failover operation works?
Write Disable device(s) on SA at source (R1)
Suspend RDF link(s)
Read/Write Enable device(s) on RA at target (R2)
How will update operation works?
Suspend RDF link(s)
Merge device track tables between source and target
Resume RDF link(s)
How will failback operation works?
Write Disable device(s) on RA at target (R2)
Suspend RDF link(s)
Merge device track tables between source and target
Resume RDF link(s)
Read/Write Enable device(s) on SA at source (R1)
What are the decision support SRDF operations?
Establish:
Resume Normal SRDF operations
Preserves data on the source (R1) volumes, discarding changes to the target (R2)
volumes
Split:
Suspends link between source (R1) and target (R2) volumes
Enables read and write operations on both source and target volumes
Restore
Resume SRDF operations
Preserves data on the target (R2) volumes, discarding changes to the source (R1)
volumes
How the split operation will works?
Suspend RDF link(s)
Read/Write Enable device(s) on RA at target (R2) also.
How will establish operation works?
Write Disable device(s) on RA at target (R2)
Suspend RDF link(s)
Resume RDF link(s)
Merge device track tables between source and target
Resume RDF link(s)
All the tracks on the target (R2) device are marked invalid.
All tracks on the R2 side are refreshed by the R1 source side. The track tables
are merged between the R1 and R2 side.
Traffic is resumed on the SRDF links.
What is the background process during the failback?
The target (R2) device is Write Disabled to its local hosts.
Traffic is suspended on the SRDF links.
If the target side is operational, and there are invalid remote (R2) tracks on t
he source side (and the force option is specified), the invalid R1 source tracks
are marked to refresh from the target side.
The invalid tracks on the source (R1) side are refreshed from the target R2 side
. The track tables are merged between the R1 and R2 sides.
Traffic is resumed on the SRDF links.
The source (R1) device is Read/Write Enabled to its local hosts
How will the SRDF restore operation works?
The source (R1) device is Write Disabled to its local hosts.
The target (R2) device is Write Disabled to its local hosts.
Traffic is suspended on the SRDF links.
All tracks on the source (R1) device are marked as invalid.
All R1 tracks are refreshed from the R2 side. The track tables are merged betwee
n the R1 and R2 side.
Traffic is resumed on the SRDF links.
The source (R1) device is read/write enabled to its local hosts.
Explain step by step procedure to perform SRDF/S?
SRDF/S normal operations
Creating device groups in source and target Arrays:
symdg -type RDF1 create "SourceDgName"
symdg -type RDF2 create "TargetDgName"
Adding devices R1 and R2 devices to source and target device groups
symld -g "SourceDgName" add dev "SymDevName"
symld -g "TargetDgName" add dev "SymDevName"
Setting SRDF mode of operation:
symrdf -g "DgName" set mode sync
SRDF normal operations:
symrdf -g "DgName" suspend
symrdf -g "DgName" resume
SRDF/S disaster recover operations
symrdf -g "DgName" failover
symrdf -g "DgName" update -remote
symrdf -g "DgName" failback
SRDF/S decission support operations:
symrdf -g "DgName" split
symrdf -g "DgName" restore
symrdf -g "DgName" establish
Explain step by step procedure to perform SRDF/Asynchronous?
Creating RDF group:
symrdf addgrp -label -rdfg "GrpNum" -sid "SymID" -dir "DirNum" -remote_sid remot
e
_dir -remote_rdfg "RemoteRdfgNum"
Create device pair:
symrdf -file "DevFileName" -sid "SymID" -rdfg "GrpNum" -type r1 -establish -g "D
gName" createpair noprompt
Changing SRDF mode :
symrdf -g "DgName" set mode async -noprompt
Explain step by step procedure to perform SRDF/AR for single hop?
Create a device group:
symdg create "DgName" -type regular
Add the standard device to the device group:
symld -g "DgName" add dev "SymDev"
Associate the R1/BCV device:
-invalidate r2
What are the Symmetrix Array-wide parameter in SRDF/A?
Maximum SRDF/A Cache Usage and Maximum Host Throttle Time
How do you set the metrics on symmetrix for SRDF/A?
set symmetrix rdfa_cache_percent = 94;
set symmetrix rdfa_host_throttle_time = 0;
What is RDF group session priority parameter?
When SRDF/A needs ts drop sessions when the cache WP limit is reached, the sessi
ons will be dropped starting with priority values of 64 with a setting of 1 bein
g the last to be dropped.
What is the SRDF mode of operation for SRDF/AR?
Adaptive copy mode.
What are the required options for symreplicate options file?
SYMCLI_REPLICATE_HOP_TYPE and one of SYMCLI_REPLICATE_CYCLE or SYMCLI_REPLICATE_
CYCLE_DELAY
What is consitency and how to enable?
Consistent split allows us to avoid inconsistencies and restart problems that ca
n occur if you split a database-related BCV without first quiescing the database
.
symrdf -g enable
What is automatic tripping and manually tripping of composite group?
Automatic Tripping - Occurs when one or more R1 source devices in an consistency
enabled Composite Group cannot propagate data to their corresponding target dev
ices.
Manual Tripping - Occurs when you invoke the symrdf cg suspend or split command.