Increase Destination Volume in a Snapmirror Relationship

When you have to increase the size of a source volume in a Snapmirror relationship you have to increase the destination volume as well. Here are the steps. 1. Break the mirror relationship (this makes the dest volume writeable) 2. Increase dest volume size to equal or greater than the source vol 3. Then execute the snapmirror resync [...]

Vmware / Netapp Disaster Recovery Using …

Vmware / Netapp Disaster Recovery Using Snapmirror – My setup: Two datacenters connected over a T1. Each datacenter run’s 3 esx host connected to Netapp FAS2050 via NFS. Silver peak WAN Opt devices sitting at each end. Vmotion/DR/Snapmirror fully implemented. 50+ vm’s running apps and sql servers. ASIS nightly. I organize all of my VM’s [...]