Running the fire drill setup wizard

To run the wizard

  1. Start the RVG Secondary Fire Drill wizard on the VVR secondary site, where the application service group is offline and the replication group is online as a secondary:
    # /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/fdsetup
  2. Read the information on the Welcome screen and press the Enter key.
  3. The wizard identifies the global service groups. Enter the name of the service group for the fire drill.
  4. Review the list of volumes in disk group that could be used for a space-optimized snapshot. Enter the volumes to be selected for the snapshot. Typically, all volumes used by the application, whether replicated or not, should be prepared, otherwise a snapshot might not succeed.

    Press the Enter key when prompted.

  5. Enter the cache size to store writes when the snapshot exists. The size of the cache must be large enough to store the expected number of changed blocks during the fire drill. However, the cache is configured to grow automatically if it fills up. Enter disks on which to create the cache.

    Press the Enter key when prompted.

  6. The wizard starts running commands to create the fire drill setup.

    Press the Enter key when prompted.

    The wizard creates the application group with its associated resources. It also creates a fire drill group with resources for the application (Oracle, for example), the Mount, and the RVGSnapshot types.

    The application resources in both service groups define the same application, the same database in this example. The wizard sets the FireDrill attribute for the application resource to 1 to prevent the agent from reporting a concurrency violation when the actual application instance and the fire drill service group are online at the same time.