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Creating an intercluster SVM peer relationship (ONTAP 9.4 and later)

You can use the vserver peer create command to create a peer relationship between SVMs on local and remote clusters.

Before you begin

About this task

Starting in ONTAP 9.4, you can pre-authorize peer relationships for multiple SVMs by listing the SVMs in the -initial-allowed-vserver option when you create a cluster peer relationship. For more information, see Creating a cluster peer relationship (ONTAP 9.4 and later).

  1. On the data protection destination cluster, display the SVMs that are pre-authorized for peering: vserver peer permission show

    Example

    cluster02::> vserver peer permission show
    Peer Cluster         Vserver               Applications
    -------------------  --------------------  --------------------
    cluster02            vs1,vs2               snapmirror
  2. On the data protection source cluster, create a peer relationship to a pre-authorized SVM on the data protection destination cluster:vserver peer create -vserver local_SVM -peer-vserver remote_SVM

    For complete command syntax, see the man page (man <command_name>) or options (<command_name> ?).

    Example

    The following example creates a peer relationship between the local SVM pvs1 and the pre-authorized remote SVM vs1 :

    cluster01::> vserver peer create -vserver pvs1 -peer-vserver vs1

  3. Verify the SVM peer relationship: vserver peer show

    Example

    cluster01::> vserver peer show
                Peer        Peer                           Peering        Remote
    Vserver     Vserver     State        Peer Cluster      Applications   Vserver
    ----------- ----------- ------------ ----------------- -------------- ---------
    pvs1        vs1         peered       cluster02         snapmirror     vs1