Creating SnapMirror relationships

You can use mirroring technology to replicate data from a source volume or qtree to a destination volume or qtree, at regular intervals or on demand.

Before you begin

•	The SnapMirror license must be enabled on both the source and the destination storage systems.

•	For SnapMirror volume replication, the capacity of the destination volume must be greater than or equal to the capacity of the source volume.

•	The SnapMirror destination volume cannot be the root volume of a storage system.

•	The destination system must be running a Data ONTAP version from the same release family or later than that of the source system.

•	Both source and destination systems must be managed by System Manager.

•	The destination storage system must have access to the source storage system.

About this task

Steps

1.	From the Home tab, double-click the appropriate storage system.

2.	In the navigation pane, click SnapMirror.

3.	Click Create.

4.	Type or select information as requested by the wizard.

5.	Confirm the details and click Finish to complete the wizard.

6.	Verify that the SnapMirror relationship you created is included in the list of SnapMirror relationships in the SnapMirror window.

If the SnapMirror relationship is not initialized during creation, then it is not displayed in the SnapMirror window of the source system. You have to initialize it from the SnapMirror window of the destination system.

Note: System Manager does not record the storage system's fully qualified domain name (FQDN) in the snapmirror.conf file.

Related reference