When using VVR to replicate a multi-device file system, we recommend the following best practices:

• If you partially associate a volume set to an RVG, ensure that all component volumes with metadata information (typically of type metadataok) are part of the RVG. If you exclude the component volume that includes metadata, then the file system cannot be brought up on the Secondary because the metadata is not replicated.

• By default, every volume in an SmartTier is metadataok, which means that the volume can also include metadata. If you want to exclude certain volumes for replication, then we recommend marking those volumes as dataonly volumes.