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Delete a SnapMirror active sync relationship on your ASA r2 system

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If you no longer require near zero RPO and RTO for a business application, you should remove SnapMirror active sync protection by deleting the associated SnapMirror active sync relationship. If you are running ONTAP 9.16.1 on an ASA r2 system, you might also need to delete the SnapMirror active sync relationship before you can make certain geometry changes to consistency groups in a SnapMirror active sync relationship.

Step 1: Terminate host replication

If the host group from the source cluster is replicated to the destination cluster and destination consistency groups are mapped to the replicated host group, you must terminate host replication on the source cluster before you can delete the SnapMirror active sync relationship.

Steps

  1. In System Manager, select Host.

  2. Next to a host containing the host group you want to stop replicating, selet three vertical blue dots, and then select Edit.

  3. Deselect Replicate host configuration, and then select Update.

Step 2: Delete the SnapMirror active sync relationship

To remove SnapMirror active sync protection from a consistency group, you must delete the SnapMirror active sync relationship.

Steps

  1. In System Manager, select Protection > Replication.

  2. Select Local destinations or Local sources.

  3. Next to the SnapMirror active sync relationship that you want to remove, select three vertical blue dots; then select Delete.

  4. Select Release the source consistency group base snapshots.

  5. Select Delete.

Result

The SnapMirror active sync relationship is removed and the source consistency group base snapshots are released. The storage units in the consistency group are no longer protected by SnapMirror active sync.

What's next?

Set up snapshot replication to copy the consistency group to a geographically remote location for backup and disaster recovery.