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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 respective VMware ESX servers in both the sites. 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.
NFS datastore need not be mounted on the recovery data center. While creating a resiliency group, you need to select the ESX server or the cluster on the recovery data center on which you want the Resiliency Platform to mount the datastore.
If you have already mounted the datastore then ensure that they have the same name on both data centers.
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. More information is available.
See the Veritas Resiliency Platform Deployment Guide.
Resiliency Platform configurations:
Configure the VMware vCenter Server to send traps to the IMS.
Add the VMware vCenter Servers to their respective data centers. The user needs to have vCenter administrator privileges.
Add the NetApp enclosures to their respective data centers.
While adding the enclosure, you must provide the IMS name as the discovery host name. Also provide the NetApp storage system name or IP, and credentials.
The user should have sufficient privileges to perform SnapMirror replication operations.
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