collection

Manages the volume collections in a group. A volume collection is a set of one or more volumes (up to eight) grouped together for the purpose of creating simultaneous snapshots of the volumes in the collection (snapshot collection) or simultaneous replicas of the volumes in the collection (replica collection).

Note: See snapcol for information on creating snapshot collections.

Format

collection subcommand

Subcommands 

create

Creates a volume collection.

delete

Deletes a volume collection. This will not delete the volumes in the collection.

rename

Renames a volume collection.

select

Enables you to:

• Add volumes to a volume collection.

• Delete volumes from a volume collection.

• Modify a volume collection description.

• Create and manage replica collections. A replica collection consists of simultaneously-created replicas of the volumes in a volume collection.

• Schedule the creation of replica collections or snapshot collections.

• Display the contents of a volume collection.

show

Displays all volume collections or detailed information about a specific collection.