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SnapMirror over iSCSI VIFs?

PIPERONTAP
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Is it possible to force SnapMirror replication to occur over the iSCSI interfaces between two filers instead of the LAN interfaces?  Is this supported or recommended?

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scottgelb
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Supported...but usually we would use different interfaces.  You can use the snapmirror preferred interface setting or in the snapmirror.conf file specify the interface host by host name.  A lot of the iSCSI setup we see are two separate non-routeable storage networks dedicated to iSCSI traffic and no other traffic on them... but if limited interfaces I could see using it, but not ideal.

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