EMC VMAX Thin Lun Clone Management

Author: Dinesh Punyani

1. Create a New DG for Clone Setup for the First time for application
Symdg create Test_DG type regular

2. Add Source Devices to DG

Symld g Test_DG addall dev range AAAA:AAAF

3. Add Target Devices to DG (Target Device Should be of same size as source)

Symld g Test_DG addall dev range BBBB:BBBF tgt

4. Create a Clone session (PreCopy)

symclone sid <> -g Test_DG create -exact -precopy -differential tgt

(to recreate existing session with increment new point in time copy use below command)
Symclone sid <> -g Test_DG recreate tgt

5. Query clone session to observe how much data is cloned and check current status
symclone sid <> -g Test_DG query -i 5

symclone sid <> -g Test_DG verify

6. Activate Clone Session

Symclone sid <> -g Test_DG activate consistent tgt

7. Query clone session to observe and check current status

symclone sid <> -g Test_DG query -i 5

symclone sid <> -g Test_DG verify

8. To terminate a Clone session

symclone sid <> terminate g Test_DG tgt