When you run the Fire Drill wizard, a fire drill service group may already exist for the selected application service group. However, the application service group may have changed since the fire drill service group was created. The wizard compares the resource names of the two service groups. If differences are found, the wizard lists them on the Re-create Fire Drill Service Group panel.
The wizard also checks the RVGs configured for disk groups. If a single RVG is configured per disk, the wizard allows you to re-create the service group; the existing snapshots are retained. If multiple RVGs are configured on a disk, the wizard only allows you to delete the service group; the existing snapshots are deleted. To create a corresponding new one, you need to launch the wizard again and perform the fire drill preparation steps.
You have the following choices from the Re-create Fire Drill Service Group panel:
Leave the option checked to re-create the fire drill service group. Proceed with using the wizard to re-create the configuration to match the application service group. The wizard deletes the existing fire drill configuration first, before creating the new one.
For a Volume Replicator replication environment, the wizard handles existing volumes as follows: It does not delete the mirrors for volumes that still exist. When it re-creates the fire drill configuration, it prepares new mirrors only for new volumes. If volumes have been removed, the wizard displays an additional option to snap abort the obsolete snapshot volumes to free up disk space.
The following procedure describes the choice of re-creating the fire drill configuration.
To re-create the fire drill configuration if the service group has changed
For a Volume Replicator replication environment, if volumes have been removed, optionally select to snap abort the volumes.
Click Next.
For a Volume Replicator replication environment, the wizard leaves the existing fire drill snapshot volumes so that those snapshot mirrors do not have to be prepared again. If volumes were removed and you selected the option to snap abort, the wizard snap aborts the snapshots of those volumes.
Warning: |
If you close the wizard after deleting the fire drill configuration without continuing on to the fire drill preparation step, the information of the existing snapshot volumes is lost. |
When all tasks are complete, click Next.
Volume Replicator replication |
If volumes have been added, the Disk Selection panel is displayed. Specify the information for the added volumes. If there is not enough disk space, you can use the Veritas Enterprise Administrator to add disks to the disk group. Then click the Refresh button in the wizard. |
Hitachi TrueCopy replication |
Horcm Files Path Selection panel See Hitachi TrueCopy Path Information panel details. HTCSnap Resource Configuration panel |
EMC SRDF replication |
SRDFSnap Resource Configuration panel |
Click Next.
For Volume Replicator replication environments, wait while the wizard starts mirror preparation.
Mirror creation can take some time. You may want to minimize the wizard while the task runs in the background. You can also close the wizard and track the mirror preparation progress in the VEA.
See Running a fire drill.