How to implement "real-time" snapmirror repliaction?

[remr1n]

hey guys.

I have 2 diffrent netapp under 1 roof (AFF250 running ONTAP9.10 and FAS2650 running NTAP9.9.1). The AFF250 has a CIFS SVM thats hosting a file server of some sort and i want to create a "realtime" snapmirror replication between the AFF250 and FAS2650. I understand i have to create a new SVM and Cluster/SVM peering with the AFF250. But when it comes to actually implementing what i want to do, where can i configure it so that the snapmirror will be done almost real time?

To be more specific, when a user creates a file in AFF250/CIFS, i want the created file replicated to the FAS2650 almost immediatly.

Any advice is more than appreciated. Thanks!

[remr1n]

thank you, so in other words, unless i break the relationship the right behaviour is that ill only be able to see the latest snapshot and not the latest real data.

[Sergey_Osipov · Accepted solution]

Yes, that is correct.

[SuperTeam]

either break the relationship or create a flexclone for the replicated volume and create a share for the clone

[ansley_tj]

Yes, a flexclone will be a copy of the AFS.

But you would have to recreate the flexclone to get the "latest" data every time you wanted it to be available.

[ansley_tj]

You can always do a snapmirror update to "refresh" the common snapshot copy.