09-12-2012 08:12 PM
Hi All,
Would anybody know the NetApp Snapmirror Agent for LINUX support NFS only?
How about FC LUN?
Thanks
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09-28-2012 07:36 AM
Hi Mike, kingkcube,
I ran this past our Eng team:
We will enhance our docs to reflect this, thanks for bringing it up.
tony
09-27-2012 01:58 AM
The agent doc says:
Clustering in a SnapMirror environment typically consists of the followinghardware infrastructure:■ One or more source hosts are connected by an ethernet cable to a NetworkAppliance device. The Network Appliance SnapMirror agent supports NFS asa transport protocol.
The paths can be Ethernet, Fibre Channel or a combination of Ethernet andFibre Channel.
09-28-2012 02:05 AM
Hi
I am looking into this. Which VCS and Linux version ?
thanks
tony
09-28-2012 02:55 AM
Hi Tony,
The latest SnapMirror 5.0.04.0 VCS agent is the same version for VCS 5.0, 5.1 and 6.0 so I guess the VCS version does not matter and since the agent is basically running commands on the NetApp filer I guess it won't matter what version of Linux is been used either. The agent docs don't specifically exclude FC as been supported, and they only mention NFS as a typical example (as oppose to a statement like agent supports NFS).
If Symantec had specifically tested FC then I guess it would be mentioned in the docs, so I guess it boils down to:
To me, this would be a matter of checking the NetApp docs to see, if for the replication functions, there is a distinction made between if the LUNs are presented by NFS or FC and if there is no distinction, then there is no need to test. But I had a similar query about support for the LVM agents (https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/using-third-party-multipathing-vcs-lvm-agents) and here Symantec think it is necessary to test LVM agent with each Multipathing solution, even though there are no flags to the LVM import command to say do something different if disks are multipathed.
So this probably boils down to the discretion of Symantec as to what they deem is relevent.
Mike
09-28-2012 07:36 AM
Hi Mike, kingkcube,
I ran this past our Eng team:
We will enhance our docs to reflect this, thanks for bringing it up.
tony
09-28-2012 07:48 AM
Thanks Tony - this make sense as I guess when the firedrill agent makes a clone of the volume it has to give access to the cloned volume from the server so I guess it gives it NFS access, whereas for replication, the access to server via FC is already setup so not relevent.
Mike