Starting Access Appliance continuous replication

This section lists the specific commands that are needed to run Access Appliance continuous replication on your clusters.

Ensure the following before starting replication:

Before you set up your clusters for continuous replication, you must first identify which is the source cluster and which is the target cluster. All of the commands are performed on the source cluster first.
Make sure both the source cluster and the target cluster have the same version of Access Appliance.
To use Access Appliance continuous replication, you have to first create an online file system on the Access Appliance source cluster.
Assign a virtual IP (VIP) address to both the source and the target clusters. The Access Appliance continuous replication service requires VIP addresses not already in use for the two clusters to communicate.

To start Access Appliance continuous replication on the source cluster

To bind a virtual IP address for the continuous replication service on the source cluster, enter the following:

Replication> continuous config bind ip_addr [device] [netmask]

ip_addr	Virtual IP address for the continuous replication service on the source cluster. It should not be part of the network IP pool.
device	The public network interface name that you want the replication IP address to use.
netmask	Netmask for the replication IP address.

To start the continuous replication service, enter the following on the source node:
```
Replication> continuous service start [nodename]
```
nodename
The name of the node in the local cluster where you want to start the replication service.
To check the status of the continuous replication service, enter the following:
```
Replication> continuous service status
```
To confirm the IP address is up and running, enter the following:
```
Replication> continuous config show ip
```
Note:
Alternately, you can use the Network> ip addr show command to confirm that the IP address is up and running.

To start Access Appliance continuous replication on the target cluster

To bind a virtual IP address for the replication service on the target cluster, enter the following:

Replication> continuous config bind ip_addr [device] [netmask]

ip_addr	Virtual IP address for the continuous replication service on the target cluster. It should not be part of the network IP pool.
device	The public network interface name that you want the replication IP address to use.
netmask	Netmask for the replication IP address.

To start the continuous replication service, enter the following on the destination node:
```
Replication> continuous service start [nodename]
```
nodename
The name of the node in the local cluster where you want to start the replication service.
To check the status of the continuous replication service, enter the following:
```
Replication> continuous service status
```
To confirm that the IP address is up and running, enter the following:
```
Replication> continuous config show ip
```
You next need to set up communication between the source and the target clusters.