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Kingkcube's avatar
Kingkcube
Level 3
12 years ago

NetApp Snapmirror Agent for LINUX

Hi All, Would anybody know the NetApp Snapmirror Agent for LINUX support NFS only? How about FC LUN? Thanks  
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  • TonyGriffiths's avatar
    TonyGriffiths
    12 years ago

    Hi Mike, kingkcube,

    I ran this past our Eng team:

    • FC is supported with Netapp SnapMirror agent (i.e Replication), But, Firedrill is not supported.
    • Firedrill is currently supported only with NFS.

     

    We will enhance our docs to reflect this, thanks for bringing it up.

    tony

mikebounds's avatar
mikebounds
Level 6
12 years ago

The agent doc says:

 

Clustering in a SnapMirror environment typically consists of the following
hardware infrastructure:
■ One or more source hosts are connected by an ethernet cable to a Network
   Appliance device. The Network Appliance SnapMirror agent supports NFS as
  a transport protocol.
As this is described as a typical environment, the fact that it only mentions NFS does not mean FC should not work and FC is mentioned later on when it talks about replication over multiple paths:
The paths can be Ethernet, Fibre Channel or a combination of Ethernet and
Fibre Channel.
I can't see why it shouldn't work as in the agent you specify the volume name on the filer, so it shouldn't matter if this volume is presented via NFS or FC.
 
Mike