Exporting A Replication Image To A Snapshot; Changing The Primary Volume For A Replication Set - HP P2000 Reference Manual

2. In the secondary system:
a. Start the snap pools' vdisks. For details see
b. Start the secondary volumes' vdisks.
c. Reattach the secondary volumes.
To reattach a secondary volume
1. In the Configuration View panel, right-click the secondary volume and select Provisioning > Reattach
Replication Volume.
2. In the main panel, click Reattach Replication Volume. A message indicates whether the task succeeded
or failed.
• If the task succeeds, the secondary volume's status changes to "Establishing proxy" while it is
establishing the connection to the remote (primary) system in preparation for replication; then the
status changes to Online. The replication set is ready to resume replication operations.
• If the reattach operation fails and says it is unable to get the primary volume's link type, the vdisk
that contains the secondary volume may not have completed its startup activities. Wait
approximately one minute for these activities to complete, then retry the operation. If this message
continues to occur, check the event log to better understand the condition and for an indication of
how to correct it.

Exporting a replication image to a snapshot

If the system is licensed to use remote replication, you can export a replication image to a new standard
snapshot. For example, you could export a replication image from a secondary volume for use on the
remote system. The standard snapshot will reside in the same snap pool, take a snapshot license, and be
independent of the primary replication image, which can continue to be used as a sync point. The
standard snapshot can be used like any other standard snapshot, and changes to it will not affect the
replication image.
The standard snapshot is subject to the snap pool's deletion policies. If the snap pool reaches its critical
threshold, the snapshot may be deleted, even if it is mapped. If you want to preserve the standard
snapshot's data, you can create a standard volume from the snapshot; see
page 69.
NOTE: The export task will not succeed if the resulting snapshot would exceed license limits.
To export a replication image to a snapshot
1. In the Configuration View panel, right-click a replication image and select Provisioning > Export
Snapshot.
2. In the main panel, optionally change the default name for the snapshot. A snapshot name is case
sensitive; cannot already exist in a vdisk; cannot include a comma, double quote, or backslash; and
can have a maximum of 20 bytes.
3. Click Export Snapshot. A message specifies whether the task succeeded or failed.
4. Click OK. If the task succeeds, in the Configuration View panel the snapshot appears under the
secondary volume on the remote system.

Changing the primary volume for a replication set

If a replication set's primary system goes offline, you can set the secondary volume to be the primary
volume so hosts can access that volume and the replicated data it contains. Scheduled replications can
continue on the remote system while the primary system remains offline.
When the secondary volume becomes the primary volume, it only retains the replication images that the
primary volume had and deletes any images that the primary volume did not have. Because the secondary
volume may not have successfully replicated all the images associated with the primary volume, the
secondary volume might have a subset of the primary volume's images.
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