1/25/2005

SRDF Control Operations

The symrdf command performs the high level control operations of the SRDF environment with two
types of low level control operations: composite and singular operations. You perform most SRDF
operations using composite operations. A composite operation is made up of several singular operations.

Table 1 lists the singular operations that make up each composite operation.

Table 1. Decomposition of Composite Operations into Singular Operations

Composite symrdf Individual operations When used

Operation options
Full establish –full establish - Write disable R2 devices on RA
- Suspend RDF link traffic - Initial synchronization of RDF mirrors
- Mark target device invalid - Replacement of failed drive on the R2
- Merge track tables side
- Resume RDF link traffic
Incremental establish - Write disable R2 devices on RA
establish - Suspend RDF link traffic
Resynchronize RDF mirrors after they have been
- Refresh tracks on target
split and target data can be discarded
- Merge track tables
- Resume RDF link traffic
Split split - Suspend RDF link traffic
When both sides need to be independently
- Read write enable R2 to its local
accessible (e.g., for testing)
host
Full restore –full restore - Write disable R1 to host
- Write disable R2 devices on RA
- Suspend RDF link traffic - Initial (reverse) synchronization of RDF
- Mark all source tracks invalid mirrors
- Merge track tables - Replacement of failed drive on R1 side
- Resume RDF link traffic
- Read write enable R1 to host
Incremental restore - Write disable R1 to host
restore - Write disable R2 devices on RA
- Suspend RDF link traffic
Resynchronize RDF mirrors after they have been
- Refresh source invalid tracks
split and the source data can be discarded
- Merge track tables
- Resume RDF link traffic
- Read write enable R1 to host
Failover failover - Write disable R1 to hosts
- Suspend RDF link traffic In the event of a failure of the source site
- Read write enable R2 to hosts
Failback failback - Write disable R2 on RA
- Suspend RDF link traffic
- Refresh source invalid tracks
To return to the source site from the target site
(requires use of the –force option)
after the cause of failure has been remedied
- Merge track tables
- Resume RDF link traffic
- Write enable R1 to hosts
Update update - Suspend RDF link traffic
- Refresh source invalid tracks To get the R1 side close to synchronized with the
(requires use of the –force option) R2 side before a failback, while the R2 side is
- Merge track tables still online to the host
- Resume RDF link traffic

Using SYMCLI to Perform Control Operations with SRDF Family Products 11