Hi
Protection Manager does not support or understand native vFiler DR using vfiler Interface which you are trying to do.
But we do have a NetApp Management Console (NMC) plugin which allows you to Create, Update and perform fail-over and fail back of vFiler DR using its own interface via ONTAP API. The link to the same is available below.
https://communities.netapp.com/groups/nmc-vfiler-plugin?view=documents
It allows to do the following.
The VFiler DR plugin is a NMC plugin for DFM4.X or OnCommand X.X that provides a consistent graphical user interface for the management of VFilers. The plugin will use Filer APIs, and thus will provide the DR features as provided by the ONTAP Filers.
- VFiler View - Shows the current state of all VFilers in the system, as well as network, storage and service data for the currently selected VFiler.
- VFiler Create - Allows the creation of Primary VFilers, including the creation of root volumes.
- VFiler Edit - Allows the editing of VFiler properties, including security and network settings as well as adding volumes and qtrees.
- VFiler Protect - Allows the creation of DR VFilers.
- VFiler Start - Allows starting of Primary VFilers.
- VFiler Stop - Allows stopping of Primary VFilers.
- VFiler Activate - Activates DR VFiler into a Primary VFiler.
- VFiler Resync - Sync changes from an active VFiler to its backup VFiler.
- VFiler Delete - Allows the deletion of either Primary or DR VFilers.
Minimum Required version is DFM 4.0 or later and ONTAP 7.3.5 or later.
Also here is a kb which describes how OCUM handles relationships when vFilers are endpoints.
https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?page=content&id=3013156
Regards
adai