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Setting up peering

Setting up peering involves creating intercluster logical interfaces (LIFs) on each node, creating cluster peering, and creating SVM peering.



  • Prerequisites for cluster peering
    Before you set up cluster peering, you should confirm that the connectivity, port, IP address, subnet, firewall, and cluster-naming requirements are met.
  • Creating intercluster LIFs
    Creating intercluster logical interfaces (LIFs) enables the cluster network to communicate with a node. You must create an intercluster LIF within each IPspace that will be used for peering, on each node in each cluster for which you want to create a peer relationship.
  • Creating cluster peer relationships
    You can create an authenticated cluster peer relationship to connect clusters so that the clusters in the peer relationship can communicate securely with each other.
  • Creating SVM peers
    SVM peering enables you to establish a peer relationship between two storage virtual machines (SVMs) for data protection.
  • What passphrases are
    You can use a passphrase to authorize peering requests. You can use a custom passphrase or a system-generated passphrase for cluster peering.
  • Enabling SnapMirror Buiness Continuity