Setting type: async in snapmirror/policies POST, configures mirror_vault in ONTAP.

[MOHANRAJB]

Hi,

verb - POST

api - snapmirror/policies

body - {'name': 'ansible_policy', 'svm': {'name': 'ansible_snap'}, 'type': 'async'}

my assumption was async is async-mirror, but it's configured in ONTAP as mirror-vault.

ontap97::> snapmirror policy show -vserver ansible_snap
Vserver Policy             Policy Number         Transfer
Name    Name               Type   Of Rules Tries Priority Comment
------- ------------------ ------ -------- ----- -------- ----------
ansible_snap
        ansible_policy     mirror-vault  1     8  normal  -
  SnapMirror Label: sm_created                         Keep:       1
                                                 Total Keep:       1

is async in REST is mirror-vault?

Thanks,

Mohan

[RobertBlackhart · Accepted solution]

The ONTAP REST API docs have this table mapping the policy types from CLI to REST:

Mapping of SnapMirror policies from CLI to REST

CLI	REST
mirror-vault	async
async-mirror w/ all_source_snapshots	async w/ copy_all_source_snapshots
async-mirror w/o all_source_snapshots	async w/ copy_latest_source_snapshot
vault	async w/ create_snapshot_on_source
----------------------	------------------------------
		sync_type
		----------------------
sync-mirror	sync	sync
strict-sync-mirror	sync	strict_sync
automated-failover	sync	automated_failover

So to get your desired result, you'll want to either pass {copy_all_source_snapshots: true} or (newly added in 9.12) {copy_latest_source_snapshot: true} and it should then report async-mirror on the CLI.