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SVR-DR scripting / tool to automate failover/failback

joshbishop1982 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:42:23 GMT

I would like to automate my SVM-DR failover with a script but I would also like to build in the option to SVM-DR snapmirror back to the original source SVM. This would be used for business continuity testing where I would failover the SVM to its DR cluster and then eventually failback to the original SVM once the test is over.

The order of events I am interested in would be:

Phase 1 - failover
1. (Cluster1) Stop SVM
2. (Cluster2) Break SVM-DR
3. (Cluster1) Release SVM-DR
4. (Cluster2) Start SVM
5. (Cluster1) Create SVM-DR relationship

Phase 2 - failback

1. (Cluster2) Stop SVM
2. (Cluster1) Break SVM-DR
3. (Cluster2) Release SVM-DR
4. (Cluster1) Start SVM
5. (Cluster2) Create SVM-DR relationship

Is there any tool out there that I can play around with that would allow me to perform these steps. I read about WFA, is that still relevant and actively used in 2024? i'd like to thin that NetApp have developed some type of tool that handles this via an API.

Re: SVR-DR scripting / tool to automate failover/failback

TMACMD — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 14:51:38 GMT

Personally I would add a snapmirror update after the svm stop in both directions

Re: SVR-DR scripting / tool to automate failover/failback

joshbishop1982 — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:04:13 GMT

Yep 100%, I would also do that but I just forgot it in the steps above. I got in touch with my account rep at NetApp and he's going to chat to some SME's about my query. I don't think there is an easy way of doing this without some fancy script writing which I have no experience in. WFA might be the way forward which is something I was hoping to avoid.