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Cifs share failover
I have two sites. Each site has a NS20 and the cifs data is replicated from each site to the other. Shouldn't this work as a failover? If I take down the san at site A shouldn't my users still be able to access data because it was replicated to the other site? Here is what happened:
Yesterday we gracefully shut down SAN1, and it did not failover to SAN2. I think it should have failed over to SAN2. Does CIFs shares require a manual failover? I thought that this would be the situation if I had Replication Manager? This would then involve moving the shares from a read only to a read/write mountable state. Is this correct? If the failover of the CIFs shares should occur automatically, then they failed yesterday.
Any help would be great.
Thanks,
LeNay
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February 24th, 2010 07:00
Celerra Replicator failover between two Celerra systems isnt automatic - you need to failover your VDMs and file systems using fs_replicator or the Celerra Manager GUI
take a look at the Using Replicator V2 manual for an explanation of the concepts
Replication Manager doesnt help you there - first it doesnt deal with CIFS shares and secondly it doesnt do automatic failover
Rainer
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February 24th, 2010 08:00
Thank you for your answer. We are using V2, but I thought that the failover was automatic. I didn't mean that we use Replication Manager for Cifs. I know that it is for iscsi. I just thought that the manual failover was for RM and not V2. But thank you for clearing it up.
Thanks,
LeNay