Before you run the Fire Drill Wizard make sure that you meet both the general requirements and the specific requirements for your replication environment.
General requirements are covered separately.
See Prerequisites for a fire drill.
Make sure that the following prerequisites are met before configuring and running a fire drill in an EMC SRDF environment:
The primary and secondary sites must be fully configured with EMC SRDF replication and the global cluster option. Make sure that you have configured disaster recovery with EMC SRDF.
The secondary system where you plan to run the fire drill must have access to the replicated volumes.
To take snapshots of R2 devices, appropriate additional devices must be associated with the RDF2 device group and fully established with the devices.
The infrastructure to take snapshots at the secondary site must be properly configured between the secondary site source and target arrays. Depending on the snapshot technology in use, this process involves the following tasks:
Mirror: Associate Symmetric Business Continuance Volumes (BCVs) and synchronize them with the secondary site source (STD devices).
Clone: Make sure that no clone session is in progress.
The source and target devices must be of the exact same size.
Snap: Make sure that sufficient save pool area is configured and that no snap session is in progress.
The source and target devices must be of the exact same size.
If you plan to run a fire drill on SRDF/A devices, you must have a TimeFinder/CG license. Make sure TimeFinder for SRDF is installed and configured at the target array.
To take snapshots of non-replicated devices, create a EMC Symmetrix device group with the same name as the SFW disk group. The device group must contain the same devices as in the disk group and have the corresponding BCV, STD, or VDEV devices associated.