Primary site = Energy Park = EP DR site = Columbia Center = CC BCV - Business Continuity Volumes HVE - Hyper Volume Extension (a LUN, a portion of a disk or disks that are presented as a "disk/LUN" to an OS, or are used for BCV or SRDF volumes) SRDF - Syncronous Remote Data Faclity. The technology of either sync or async'ing data between EMC disk frames, normally residing at remote locations. *** EP *** *** CC *** Server(s) Server(s) - Mounts [- Mounts ] (not normally seen) - Filesytems [- Filesystem ] (not normally seen) - Volumes [- Volumes ] (not normally seen) - Data [- Data ] (not normally seen) EMC Frame EMC Frame (disk(s)) (disk(s)) | | | ^ | | +-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->+ SRDF Link SRDF copies blocks as they change, from Primary site to DR site. SRDF is (normally) a continuous process. The Primary site has the R1 source HVE and the DR site has the R2 target HVE. The DR site can mount the R2 copy for use ONLY AFTER the SRDF has been stopped (when replication is stopped). The R2 can then be mounted on the system. ANY CHANGES to the R2 would either be lost or need to be reversed sync'd BEFORE starting the normal primary to DR replication again. Another way to see the data at the DR site without effecting the SRDF volumes (R1 & R2), is to use BCVs. A BCV would be split off the R2 HVE and then mounted for testing. The cost for this is disk space for the BCV.