Huawei OceanStor V3 Series User Manual

Contents
About This Document.....................................................................................................................ii
1 Feature Description....................................................................................................................... 1
1.1 Overview........................................................................................................................................................................ 1
1.2 License Requirements and Compatible Products........................................................................................................... 3
1.3 Principles........................................................................................................................................................................ 4
1.3.1 Related Concepts......................................................................................................................................................... 4
1.3.2 Data Replication.......................................................................................................................................................... 9
1.3.3 Service Switchover.................................................................................................................................................... 13
1.3.4 Data Recovery........................................................................................................................................................... 15
1.3.5 Functions of a Consistency Group.............................................................................................................................16
1.4 Impact and Restrictions................................................................................................................................................ 19
1.5 Application Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................20
2 Planning........................................................................................................................................ 29
3 Configuring Remote Replication............................................................................................. 31
3.1 Configuration Process...................................................................................................................................................32
3.2 Preparing for the Configuration....................................................................................................................................33
3.3 Checking the License File............................................................................................................................................ 34
3.4 (Optional) Adding Routes............................................................................................................................................ 35
3.5 Adding a Remote Device..............................................................................................................................................36
3.6 Creating a Remote Replication.....................................................................................................................................43
3.6.1 Creating a Synchronous Remote Replication (Applicable to V300R006C00)......................................................... 43
3.6.2 Creating a Synchronous Remote Replication (Applicable to V300R006C10)......................................................... 45
3.6.3 Creating an Asynchronous Remote Replication (Applicable to V300R006C00)..................................................... 50
3.6.4 Creating an Asynchronous Remote Replication (Applicable to V300R006C10)..................................................... 56
3.7 Creating a Consistency Group......................................................................................................................................62
3.8 Verifying the Configuration..........................................................................................................................................68
4 Configuration Example.............................................................................................................. 72
4.1 Central Backup and Disaster Recovery........................................................................................................................ 72
4.1.1 Requirement Analysis................................................................................................................................................72
4.1.2 Configuration Planning..............................................................................................................................................75
4.1.3 Configuration Operations.......................................................................................................................................... 82
4.1.4 Configuration Verification.........................................................................................................................................92
OceanStor V3 Series
Remote Replication Feature Guide for Block Contents
Issue 06 (2018-01-30) Huawei Proprietary and Confidential
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Huawei OceanStor V3 Series Specifications

General

Supported Protocols	FC, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50
Controller	Redundant, active-active controllers
Cache	Up to several GB per controller
Snapshot	Supported
Replication	Supported
Form Factor	Rack-mountable
Controllers	Dual controllers
Host Interface	8Gbps/16Gbps FC, 1Gbps/10Gbps iSCSI
Drive Types Supported	SSD, SAS, NL-SAS
Operating System	Huawei OceanStor OS
Data Protection	RAID, Snapshot, Replication
Data Services	Thin Provisioning
Management	Web-based GUI, CLI, SNMP
Scalability	Scalable capacity and performance
High Availability	Redundant hardware, hot-swappable components, automatic failover
Power Supply	Redundant power supplies