Configuring VMware virtual machines for disaster recovery using NetApp SnapMirror
This section lists the prerequisites to enable data replication for the Veritas Resiliency Platform environment using NetApp SnapMirror. For NetApp SnapMirror based replication all virtual machines that consume storage from a NetApp volume must belong to the same resiliency group.
Ensure that the NetApp volumes are already set up for replication between the primary and remote NetApp storage systems, and the replication has a replication schedule associated with it.
Resiliency Platform does not support one NetApp volume having more than one SnapMirror destination volumes.
NetApp volumes or qtrees can be provisioned as NFS datastores mounted on ESX servers, or LUNs created on NetApp volumes or qtrees can be provisioned to ESX servers via Fibre Channel and mounted as VMFS datastores.
Ensure that the NetApp SnapMirror replicated volumes are mounted on the VMware ESX servers on the production data center only. Do not mount the replicated peer NetApp volumes to the same VMware ESX server.
Also ensure that the volumes are replicated using SnapMirror policy type mirror. SnapMirror policy types vault and mirror-vault are not supported.
Ensure that the NFS datastores are not mounted on the recovery data center at any point in time.
If any changes are made to storage or storage-adapters available to the ESX/ESXi host or cluster, you must perform storage rescan, storage adapter rescan or both depending on the changes made.
Resiliency Platform configurations:
Using the Resiliency Platform console Infrastructure settings, you add the asset infrastructure for each data center (the production and recovery data centers). The following is a summary of the steps.
See Adding the asset infrastructure.
Resiliency Platform configurations:
Add the VMware vCenter Servers to their respective data centers. The user needs to have vCenter administrator privileges.
Ensure that the virtualization server and ESX server are discovered successfully.
Add the NetApp enclosures to their respective data centers.
Ensure that you have sufficient privileges to perform SnapMirror replication operations.
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