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August 30th, 2011 00:00

which R1 or R2 device are part of an RA(RDF) group?

HI ,

I have a question , I know that  if we know the device name then we can find the "RA" group associated with that device .  But is there any way to find which all devices are associated with an " RA" group?

E.g. If I check all RA group created on my SRDF setup with "symcfg list -ra all " or symcfg list -rdfg all"  and if I want to check what all R1 or R2 devices are associated with and RA group say 7 with some label name.

Actually on my setup everything gets meshed up . We have lots of RA group created and many SRDF configuration running. But some of them are currently not in use or say we want to delete them . then we want all the device name which are in replication and added in some RA groups.

Also how can we  disable a RW access to create an RA group.

Any kind of help will be great.

FYI:  we have DMX4 and VMAX-1 Arrays.

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August 30th, 2011 00:00

Try with this.....

root@chslyp10-/usr/symcli/bin> symrdf -sid 3889 list -rdfg 3 | more

Symmetrix ID: 000000000000

                              Local Device View
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    STATUS     MODES                     RDF  S T A T E S
Sym        RDF      ---------  -----  R1 Inv   R2 Inv ----------------------
Dev  RDev  Typ:G    SA RA LNK  MDAT   Tracks   Tracks Dev RDev Pair
---- ---- --------  ---------  ----- -------  ------- --- ---- -------------

00C2 00C2   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00C4 00C4   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00D2 00D2   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00D3 00D3   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00D4 00D4   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00D5 00D5   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00D6 00D6   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        -        - RW  WD   Synchronized
00D7 00D7   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00D8 00D8   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        -        - RW  WD   Synchronized
00DA 00DA   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00DB 292C   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        -        - RW  WD   Synchronized
00DC 00DC   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00DD 00DD   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00DE 00DE   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00DF 00DF   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00E0 00E0   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00E1 00E1   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00E2 00E2   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00E3 00E3   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00E4 00E4   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00E5 00E5   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        -        - RW  WD   Synchronized
00E6 00E6   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00E7 00E7   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        -        - RW  WD   Synchronized
00E8 00E8   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00E9 00E9   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        -        - RW  WD   Synchronized
00EA 00EA   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00EB 00EB   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        -        - RW  WD   Synchronized
00EC 00EC   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00ED 00ED   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        -        - RW  WD   Synchronized
00EE 00EE   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00EF 00EF   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        -        - RW  WD   Synchronized
00F0 00F0   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00F1 00F1   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        -        - RW  WD   Synchronized
00F2 00F2   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00F3 00F3   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        -        - RW  WD   Synchronized
00F4 00F4   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00F5 00F5   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        -        - RW  WD   Synchronized
00F6 00F6   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00F7 00F7   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        -        - RW  WD   Synchronized
00F8 00F8   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00F9 00F9   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized
00FA 00FA   R1:3    RW RW RW   S..1        0        0 RW  WD   Synchronized

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August 30th, 2011 00:00

Thanks Rahman..

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January 24th, 2013 12:00

what is the meaning of SA,RA & LNK in the above output ?

278 Posts

January 24th, 2013 15:00

Hello Shubh,

also, if you would execute the command      symrdf -sid <> list       then you will have all the R1 and R2 devices on the specific Array and you can export them in a excel file.

Also if you open your SMC and go to RDF ports on a specific  array you will be able to see which devices exists on the RDF ports!!!!!!

If you go to the RA Group you can see the RA Groups and their number group and inside the RA group you can see the R1 (if it is local array) devices or R2 devices (if it remote array).

859 Posts

January 25th, 2013 02:00

HI Koppuru,

SA (aka FA) = SCSI Adapter

RA = RDF Adapter

LNK = RDF Link

So the above output suggests that device is Read Write on front end, RW on RDF port and the links are RW. If LNK was NR then your SRDF status would have been partitioned.

If SA status was WD and LNK was NR then SRDF status would have been split.

regards,

Saurabh

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