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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 20, 2022

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SCDM: Import existing GMCV relationships into CDM - take ownership back after change

SCDM only lets you create brand new relationships when managing a GMCV configuration. If existing relationships are present on the volumes (even if they were created by SCDM) you have to destroy them and then recreate - full initial re-sync necessary - time wasting etc etc. Two use cases : 1. SCDM suddenly drops a relationship (seen in testing) and claims it can't continue - need a "override and take back control" option to re-start and incrementally resume from last freeze time. 2. Expanding volumes - in order to expand a GMCV volume (for example thin VMs over a thick LUN) the use case is commonly required by CMTG, you have to stop GMCV, remove the change volumes, expand the GM volumes (target then src) then add back CV's and finally resume GMCV - in this case SCDM throws a fit because it saw someone else stop the GMCV. Here we'd like a "just take back control and resume from last freeze point" 3. Importing an existing config to be controlled by SCDM.
Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Juan Carlos Jimenez Fuentes
    Reply
    |     Sep 23, 2022

    SCDM already supports the creation of consistency groups. For any application, it creates a consistency group. In the storage controller workflow, there is an option to create a consistency group.

  • Admin
    Juan Carlos Jimenez Fuentes
    Reply
    |     Sep 23, 2022

    This request may not be delivered within the release currently under development, but the theme is aligned with the current multi-year strategy. IBM may consider and evaluate any RFE Community feedback for this request through activities such as voting. IBM will update this request in the future.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 21, 2022

    Semi-related, but CMTG have also reported incompatibilities when creating VMware Backups job definitions on SCDM when using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). When a backup job identifies multiple volumes to be copied SCDM appears to do this sequentially whereas SRM flags errors indicating this should be done as part of a Consistency Group (CG).


    SCDM, in addition to checking for existing GMCV relationships should also check to see if the relationship is in a CG.

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