The VCS hardware replication agent for NetApp provides failover support and recovery in environments employing NetApp filers for storage and NetApp SnapMirror for replication.

The agent monitors and manages the state of replicated filer devices and ensures that at a time only one system has safe and exclusive access to the configured devices.

The agent can be used in local clusters, single VCS replicated data clusters, and multi-cluster environments set up using the VCS Global Cluster Option (GCO).