We are performing a SQL Server disaster recovery test and have realized that the sysdb volume does not get snapmirrored to the DR filer.
Our SQL server is a VM so we will be able to recover the actual SQL Server itself in event of a DR, but its kind of useless if the System Databases have not replicated.
I see in the backup logs that they are configured as streamed backups.
Realistically, the sysdb volume should be snapmirrored along with the userdb and the logs over to the DR filer everytime the backups run.
All the SMSQL guides talk about doing a manaual recovery of SQL and then doing a restore, but I don't/shouldn't need to do that.
It should be as simple as mounting my sysdb volume along with all the other volumes and starting SQL...it will do the rest to recover....
Obviously if I had to recover the SQL server with a new install, that would be a different story, but thats now an exception to the rule, vs a normal configuraiton any longer.
So...is there a way to get SMSQL to actually kick off a LUN snapmirror as part of the regular job or so I have to just run the native snapmirror process and be done with it?
