Skip to main content
OnCommand Unified Manager 9.5
A newer release of this product is available.

Creating a SnapMirror protection relationship from the Health/Volumes inventory page

Contributors netapp-adityaw
PDFs

Using the Health/Volumes inventory page enables you to create several SnapMirror protection relationships at one time by selecting more than one volume on the same SVM.

Before you begin

  • You must have the OnCommand Administrator or Storage Administrator role.

  • You must have set up Workflow Automation.

About this task

The Protect menu does not display in the following instances:

  • If RBAC settings do not allow this action: for example, if you have only operator privileges

  • When the volume ID is unknown: for example, when you have a intercluster relationship and the destination cluster has not yet been discovered

Steps

  1. In the Health/Volumes inventory page, right-click a volume that you want to protect.

    Alternatively, to create multiple protection relationships on the same SVM, select one or more volumes in the Health/Volumes inventory page, and click Protect > SnapMirror on the toolbar.

    The Configure Protection dialog box is displayed.

  2. Click SnapMirror to view the SnapMirror tab and to configure the destination information.

  3. Click Advanced to set the space guarantee, as needed, and then click Apply.

  4. Complete the Destination Information area and the Relationship Settings area in the SnapMirror tab.

  5. Click Apply.

    You are returned to the Health/Volumes inventory page.

  6. Click the protection configuration job link at the top of the Health/Volumes inventory page.

    If you are creating only one protection relationship, the Protection/Job details page is displayed; however, if you are creating more than one protection relationship, a list of all the jobs associated with the protection operation is displayed.

  7. Do one of the following:

    • If you have only one job, click Refresh to update the tasks list and task details associated with the protection configuration job and to determine when the job is complete.

    • If you have more than one job:

      1. Click a job in the jobs list.

      2. Click Refresh to update the tasks list and task details associated with the protection configuration job and to determine when the job is complete.

      3. Use the Back button to return to the filtered list and view another job.

Results

Depending on the destination SVM you specified during configuration or on the options you enabled in your Advanced settings, the resulting SnapMirror relationship might be one of several possible variations:

  • If you specified a destination SVM that runs under the same or a newer version of ONTAP compared to that of the source volume, a block-replication-based SnapMirror relationship is the default result.

  • If you specified a destination SVM that runs under the same or a newer version of ONTAP (8.3 or later) compared to that of the source volume, but you enabled version-flexible replication in the Advanced settings, a SnapMirror relationship with version-flexible replication is the result.

  • If you specified a destination SVM that runs under an earlier version of ONTAP 8.3 or a later version than that of the source volume, and the earlier version supports version-flexible replication, a SnapMirror relationship with version-flexible replication is the automatic result.