Overview

The VFRJob Agent starts scheduling of VFR Job, monitors VFR Job status, and stops scheduling of VFR Job.

Use the VFRJob agent to make the replicator job highly available on a source system if the source system faults. The VFRJob type resource is a failover resource and provides high availability (HA) for VFR Job. It monitors the VFR Job on the source system. The source system is where the file system is mounted and the file system is replicated from the source system to the target system. The target system, where the file system is replicated to, must be outside of the cluster of the source system. Target system can be part of a different cluster.

If the system performing file system replication (system that hosts the file system) faults, the file system fails over to another system in the cluster. And the VFRJob resource also fails over to that system. Thus VFRJob agent makes the VFR Job highly available.

VFRJob depends on vxfstaskd daemon and vxsfsrepld daemon. The vxfstaskd daemon schedules the replicator job while the vxfsrepld daemon functions as the replicator daemon. Both the daemons should be running on source and target systems.

Refer to the sample configuration that shows how VCS provides high availability for the scheduler daemon and the replication daemon on the source as well as the target system..