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Creating a mirror and vault relationship from a source SVM

You can use Storage Manager to create a mirror and vault relationship from the source storage virtual machine (SVM). Creating this relationship enables you to better protect your data by periodically transferring data from the source volume to the destination volume. This relationship also enables you to retain data for long periods by creating backups of the source volume.

Before you begin

  • The source cluster must be running ONTAP 8.3.2 or later.

  • The SnapMirror license must be enabled on the source cluster and destination cluster.

    Note

    • For some platforms, it is not mandatory for the source cluster to have the SnapMirror license enabled if the destination cluster has the SnapMirror license and Data Protection Optimization (DPO) license enabled.

    • After the DPO license is enabled on the destination cluster, you must refresh the browser of the source cluster to enable the Protect option.

  • The source cluster and destination cluster must be in a healthy peer relationship.

  • The source SVM and destination SVM must be in a healthy peer relationship, or the destination SVM must have permission to peer.

  • The destination aggregate must have space available.

  • The source aggregate and the destination aggregate must be 64-bit aggregates.

  • FlexVol volumes must be online and of type read/write.

  • The SnapLock aggregate type must be the same.

  • A maximum of 25 volumes can be protected in one selection.

  • If you are connecting from a cluster running ONTAP 9.2 or earlier to a remote cluster on which Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) authentication is enabled, password-based authentication must be enabled on the remote cluster.

About this task

  • Storage Manager does not support a cascade relationship.

    For example, a destination volume in a relationship cannot be the source volume in another relationship.

  • SVMs that are peered only for FlexCache applications and do not have peering permissions for SnapMirror applications are not shown in the list of SVMs in this task. You can use the ONTAP Storage Manager 9.6 enhanced peering workflow to give permission to, or peer to, these SVMs. You then can select them in this task to create a protection relationship.
  1. Click Protection > Relationships.
  2. Click Protect and select Volumes.
  3. Specify whether the relationship will be Synchronous or Asynchronous in the PROTECTION POLICY field.
  4. Specify the source cluster and destination cluster.
  5. Choose the storage VM associated with the volume and the volume to mirror.
  6. Select the target SVM and any destination settings.
  7. Click Save.