Fastest way to replicate a CIFS-server with all volumes to a DR site in a functional way?

Northman

I am currently setting up SnapMirror for hundreds of volumes for a CIFS SVM residing in a Metrocluster site. I create destination volumes with the same volume size and type DP using powershell on a FAS2720 filer. Later I will create the SM relationship and initialize it, also using powershell. 

When it is done, I will have to break the relationship with all the hundreds of volumes and then run another powershell command to add junction paths,export policies to each of those volumes in order to create functional CIFS shares for the volumes. 

Is there a simpler way to replicate a CIFs-server to a different Netapp cluster? I was thinking first to use Storage VM (DR), but it seems not to be available. Maybe because the source SVM already is in a SVM DR relationship inside its Metrocluster? 

tansley

@Northman , You do not mention the ONTAP version.

Assuming you want to replicate the volumes to a non-MetroCluster target for DR. 

Starting with ONTP 9.11.1, you can create an SVM-DR relationship from an SVM that hosts  MetroCluster Source volumes to a target cluster not in the MetroCluster relationship.

I hope this helps.