Creating a Replication Group

Procedure

1. Choose Data Protection > Object Protection > Remote Replication.
2. Click Create.

   The Create Replication Group page is displayed on the right.

3. Set basic information about the replication group. Table 1 describes related parameters.

   Table 1 Replication group parameters

   Parameter	Description
   Name	Indicates the name of the replication group. [Value range] The name contains 1 to 128 characters. The name can contain only letters, digits, underscores (_), and hyphens (-). It must start with a letter and cannot end with a hyphen (-) or underscore (_).
   Sites	Indicates the number of sites in the replication group.

4. Configure cluster information.
   1. Click Configure Cluster.

      The Configure Cluster page is displayed.

   2. Select the desired clusters and select the primary or secondary site role for each cluster.
      

      • The number of selected clusters must be the same as that of sites.
      • Among the selected clusters, set one as the primary site and others as secondary sites.
   3. (Optional) In the diagram of the created replication group, select a link role for the link between devices.
      

      This step is required only when Sites is set to 3 and two of the three links are active links and the other one is a standby link.

   4. Click OK.

5. In the diagram of created replication group, select a synchronization mode for each primary link. Possible options are Sync and Async.
6. Click OK.