topic Re: VFiler DR & Protection Manager in ONTAP Discussions

VFiler DR & Protection Manager

abuchmann — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:17:13 GMT

Hi all

First of all, I sadly know that PM does not support vfiler dr.

As we have a several vfiler-dr configs and we're now starting to use snapvault backups, we need a solution for this.

We cannot snapvault from the mirror, because snapvault cannot create snapshots on a read-only vol.

Would it be possible to create a vfiler dr config to import the snapmirror relationships and then add them to a protection policy? if yes, what are the pros and cons?

kind regards,

Adrian

Re: VFiler DR & Protection Manager

smoot — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:38:18 GMT

Hi Adrian --

Unfortunately, this is not likely to work very well. We tried to qualify this when testing 4.0 and found there were situations where the matching volume and qtree names caused problems. I don't recall the exact details, but the gist of it was it was really easy to select the wrong volume or qtree because we don't show enough context.

-- Pete

Re: VFiler DR & Protection Manager

radek_kubka — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:40:26 GMT

Hi,

As per http://communities.netapp.com/message/19671#19671:

Backing up specific Snapshot using SnapVault from a VSM destination is 
now possible in Data ONTAP 7.3.2. Refer to the SnapVault Best Practices 
Guide for more info.

So the point is you don't need Protection Manager to accomplish your goal.

Regards,

Radek

Re: VFiler DR & Protection Manager

abuchmann — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:32:32 GMT

Clicking on your refered post, i get "permission denied". Do you know why?

Re: VFiler DR & Protection Manager

adaikkap — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:21:41 GMT

Its a closed community thats why.

Regards

adai