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Promote a standalone consistency group to become parent consistency group

Availability: This command is available to cluster and Vserver administrators at the admin privilege level.

Description

The vserver consistency-group promote command can be used to promote a consistency group to a parent consistency group. A new child consistency group will be created and associated with the newly promoted parent consistency group.

Parameters

-vserver <Vserver Name> - Vserver Name

This parameter specifies the Vserver that contains the consistency group that is to be promoted.

-consistency-group <text> - Consistency Group Name

This parameter specifies the consistency group that is to be promoted.

-child-consistency-group <text> - Child Consistency Group Name

This parameter specifies the child consistency group which will get created during promotion.

[-new-name <text>] - New name for the Consistency Group

This parameter optionaly specifies a new name for the consistency group after promotion.

Examples

The following command promotes the consistency group singleCG in Vserver vs0, which is renamed to parentCG at promotion gets assigned a new child consistency group childCG at promotion.

cluster1::> vserver consistency-group promote -vserver vs0 -consistency-group singleCG -child-consistency-group childCG -new-name parentCG
        (vserver consistency-group promote)
    [Job 65] Job succeeded: Success