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    This document discusses different types of groups that can be used for SRDF control operations, including device groups, device files, and composite groups. Device groups contain SRDF devices from a single array and can be used to identify devices and issue control operations. Device files specify device pairs across arrays. Composite groups allow grouping of device groups and files for operations.

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    This document discusses different types of groups that can be used for SRDF control operations, including device groups, device files, and composite groups. Device groups contain SRDF devices from a single array and can be used to identify devices and issue control operations. Device files specify device pairs across arrays. Composite groups allow grouping of device groups and files for operations.

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    SRDF Control Operations

    Device groups, device files and composite groups


    Most SRDF operations are performed on devices in device groups (-g), device files (-file), and composite groups (-cg). The EMC Solutions Enabler Symmetrix Array Management CLI Product Guide explains how to create device groups, device files, and composite groups.

    Device groups
    An SRDF device group is a user-defined device group comprised of SRDF devices from a single Symmetrix array. At the time of creation, a device group must be defined as type REGULAR, RDF1, RDF2, RDF21, or ANY, and may contain various device lists for standard, BCV, virtual (VDEV), and remote devices. If the group type is defined as RDF1, RDF2, or RDF21, the group is considered an SRDF device group. Note: A device group of any SRDF type can change its type because of a symrdf control operation. For example, an RDF1 DG can change to an RDF2 when the device personalities are swapped. SRDF control operations cannot change the type of an ANY device group but can affect the devices in that device group (such as the suspend, establish, and swap operations). By default, a device cannot belong to more than one device group. However, you can change this default behavior to allow a device to belong to multiple groups by enabling the SYMAPI_ALLOW_DEV_IN_MULT_GRPS parameter in the Symmetrix options file. You can use device groups to identify and work with a subset of available Symmetrix devices, obtain configuration, status, and performance statistics on a collection of related devices, or issue control operations that apply to all devices in the specified device group. A device group can be a member of one or more composite groups.

    Device files
    The device file option directs the specified operation in the symrdf command to a device file. The device file contains device pairs (SymDevnames) listing a pair on each line. Device files can include comment lines that begin with the pound sign (#). The following example illustrates the file format, which specifies three device pairs:
    00A1 00A2 #00A3 00B1 0103 0104 0105 (To be reinstalled later) 0106

    When using this option, specify an SRDF group to which all devices in the first column can belong. Also include a target Symmetrix ID or set the environmental variable SYMCLI_SID. These options allow you to operate on Symmetrix arrays and remote BCV pairs beyond the first SRDF multi-hop.

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    EMC Solutions Enabler Symmetrix SRDF Family CLI Version 7.5 Product Guide

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