Creating a FlashCopy consistency group and adding mappings using the CLI

You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to create and add mappings to a FlashCopy® consistency group.

If you have created several FlashCopy mappings for a group of virtual disks (VDisks) that contain elements of data for the same application, it can be convenient to assign these mappings to a single FlashCopy consistency group. You can then issue a single prepare or start command for the whole group. For example, you can copy all of the files for a database at the same time.

Perform the following steps to add FlashCopy mappings to a new FlashCopy consistency group:

Issue the svctask mkfcconsistgrp CLI command to create a FlashCopy consistency group.
The following is an example of the CLI command you can issue to create a FlashCopy consistency group:
```
svctask mkfcconsistgrp -name FCcgrp0 -autodelete
```
Where FCcgrp0 is the name of the FlashCopy consistency group. The -autodelete parameter specifies to delete the consistency group when the last FlashCopy mapping is deleted or removed from the consistency group.
Issue the svcinfo lsfcconsistgrp CLI command to display the attributes of the group that you have created.
The following is an example of the CLI command you can issue to display the attributes of a FlashCopy consistency group:
```
svcinfo lsfcconsistgrp -delim : FCcgrp0
```
The following is an example of the output that is displayed:
```
id:1 
name:FCcgrp0 
status:idle_or_copied 
autodelete:on 
FC_mapping_id:0 
FC_mapping_name:fcmap0 
FC_mapping_id:1 
FC_mapping_name:fcmap1
```
Note: For any group that has just been created, the status reported is empty
Issue the svctask chfcmap CLI command to add FlashCopy mappings to the FlashCopy consistency group:
The following are examples of the CLI commands you can issue to add Flash Copy mappings to the FlashCopy consistency group:
```
svctask chfcmap -consistgrp FCcgrp0 main1copy
svctask chfcmap -consistgrp FCcgrp0 main2copy
```
Where FCcgrp0 is the name of the FlashCopy consistence group and main1copy, main2copy are the names of the FlashCopy mappings.

Issue the svcinfo lsfcmap CLI command to display the new attributes of the FlashCopy mappings.

The following is an example of the output that is displayed:

svcinfo lsfcmap -delim :
id:name:source_vdisk_id:source_vdisk_name:target_vdisk_id:
target_vdisk_name:group_id:group_name:status:progress:copy_rate
0:main1copy:28:maindisk1:29:bkpdisk1:1:FCcgrp0:idle_copied::75
1:main2copy:30:maindisk2:31:bkpdisk2:1:FCcgrp0:idle_copied::50

Issue the svcinfo lsfcconsistgrp CLI command to display the detailed attributes of the group.
The following is an example of a CLI command that you can issue to display detailed attributes:
```
svcinfo lsfcconsistgrp -delim : FCcgrp0
```
Where FCcgrp0 is the name of the FlashCopy consistency group, and -delim specifies the delimiter.

The following is an example of the output that is displayed:
```
id:1
name:FCcgrp0
status:idle_or_copied
autodelete:off
FC_mapping_id:0
FC_mapping_name:main1copy
FC_mapping_id:1
FC_mapping_name:main2copy
```