Replication updates include most of the configuration specified on the Shares screen for a project and its shares. This includes any target groups and initiator groups associated with replicated LUNs.
When using non-default target groups and initiator groups, administrators must ensure that the target groups and initiator groups used by LUNs within the project also exist on the replication target. If the target group or initiator group does not exist on the target system, a clone, sever, or reverse replication will fail. An error message reports that the initiator or target group name was either deleted or renamed on the target system.
The SCSI GUID associated with a LUN is replicated with the LUN. As a result, the LUN on the target appliance will have the same SCSI GUID as the LUN on the source appliance. Clones of replicated LUNs, however, will have different GUIDs (just as clones of local LUNs have different GUIDs than their origins).
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