The SmartMove for VVR feature enables VVR to leverage information from VxFS knowledge of the file system blocks in use to optimize the time and network bandwidth required for initial synchronization of replicated volumes. This feature is available if there is a VxFS file system mounted on top of the volume that is being synchronized.

If you use SmartMove with automatic synchronization, you can deploy the disaster recovery site faster because you are replicating far less data than the storage provisioned on the system. To use automatic synchronization with SmartMove in a cluster volume replication (CVR) environment, the file system must be mounted on the logowner.

The default behavior is to use the SmartMove for VVR feature for initial synchronization. The commands that use SmartMove during initial synchronization are vradmin syncrvg/syncvol/startrep and vxrlink -a att.

The vradmin verifydata command has also been enhanced to leverage VxFS knowledge of file system blocks in use for verification.