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Protection Manager >> protection across specific vlan

sswain123 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:41:42 GMT

Hi Guys,

I come to the community with yet another question.... I have a dedicated backup link to use for my offsite backups using Protection Manager. The source filers has been configured with 2 vlans, one for production and the other for the backup network… I would like to specify to ProtMgr to go over the bkp vlan.

When manually setting this up its easy, modify /etc/hosts and use the required values, then kick off the mirror.. example: ‘snapmirror initialize –S srcfiler_bkp:/vol/qtree dstfiler_bkp’. Now that this is supposed to be automated and taken care of by ProtMgr, how do I specify? I’m already modify /etc/hosts to include the values I would like to specify, I just don’t know where to go to do this. I initially thought I could use the ‘ndmpd.preferred_interface’ options but, I only have 1 vif so, it’s a no go.

If anyone could shed a little light on this, I’d be most grateful!

Thanks,
Scott

Re: Protection Manager >> protection across specific vlan

adaikkap — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:31:43 GMT

Hi Scott,

For snapmirror relationships you need to specify the preferred interface as follows.

Dfm host set src_filer hostPreferredAddr1 = bkp_vlan ip addr of the source filer.

Similary on the destination filer too.

Dfm host set dst_filer hostPreferredAddr1 = bkp_vlan ip addr of the dst filer

Regards

adai

Protection Manager >> protection across specific vlan

sswain123 — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:41:04 GMT

Thanks Adai. You mentioend SM above, this still applies to SV being that it's QSM under the covers?

Protection Manager >> protection across specific vlan

adaikkap — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:58:19 GMT

Hi Scott,

For QSM and VSM the option I specified is use to create connections and separate the traffic. For SnapVault the option.ndpmd.preferred_interface on the controller is used.

Regards

adai

Protection Manager >> protection across specific vlan

sswain123 — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:13:12 GMT

what if you only have 1 vif? i have 2 x10g in a single mode vif.... i need to have the traffic come out the backup vlan so i can QoS is traffic. is this possible?

Re: Protection Manager >> protection across specific vlan

mmodi — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:11:42 GMT

Hi Adai,

Does dfm require network connectivity to the controllers (using NDMP) via that hostPreferredAddr1 ?

Is the assumption that dfm only communicates to the controllers via management interface "hostPrimaryAddress" (using NDMP) ?

- While controllers VSM using replication network connection specified using hostPreferredAddr1?

Thanks

Modi

Re: Protection Manager >> protection across specific vlan

adaikkap — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:58:27 GMT

Hi Modi,

DFM use the hostprimaryaddress for snmp and API based monitoring. Where as when doing the VSM update it would initiate the appropriate commands with the hostpreferredAddr1&2.

Per say dfm does not need connectivity to the hostpreferredAddr1&2, but your storage controllers( src and dst need to be able to communicate using the hostpreferredAddr1&2. set in dfm.)

Hope this clarifies.

Regards

adai