Change name of a VV in RC ?

[sancommander]

Hi all,

I was wondering about the correct way to change a VV name, which is in a RC-setup in sync mode to second site. (PP setup, A/P). Can i change the name of a VV safe?

Does this have any impact? We have 2 VV-names wich are not the same as the Dastores names in VMWare.

Thanks in advance for any advice,

[RitonLaBevue]

VV, CPG, Host are not object identifiers... So you can change them, without any impact of course.

[sancommander]

Hi RitonLaBevue,

Thanks for your reply. So if i change the VV-name in Site A this will be also picked up by Site B or do i need to change it also there?

For a CPG-name change, if you are running AO (we do here) you must edit the AO-config.

[RitonLaBevue]

The best thing you could do is to test it.
Create VV on site A & B, create a RC group, replicate VVs in this group. Change VVs name. What happens in RC group ?

With Inform OS 3.1.2 or higher AO is on nodes. So you no more have to change CPG in AO as it was in SR. CPG Id is the reference.

[hdtvguy]

If you change a VV name in a RC group it only changes it on the side you are editing. The names do not have to matach, just volume sizes. Also if you make a size change to a volume in a RC group the volume on the other side will be updated automatically (I believe that was implemented in 3.1.2).