The resources in a service group must come online and go offline in a particular order; the dependencies represent this order. In the following dependency graphs, resources must come online starting at the "bottom" and moving up the dependency lines.

In the sample configuration of a replication service group that is shown in the dependency graph below, the shared disk group is configured using the SFW (VMDg) resource type. The service group IP address for Volume Replicator (which manages the replication IP) is configured using the IP resource type, which in turn has a dependency on a NIC resource. The VvrRvg resource represents the RVG and monitors the RVG failover within a cluster.

The replication service group comes online after each of these resources is brought online.