SyncIQ, CIFS and Switching over

Just finished the Admin and Adv. classes and still dont have a clear picture.  I come from a Celerra background and have the VDM / File system replication mindset that I know I must shed.  So I'm hoping for real life experience examples/answers.

What I need to know, how have others replicated their data, and then brought the resources online to test.

For example

Isilon1 - PRIMARY array

Isilon2 - TARGET array.

Isilon1 has CIFS1 and all shares.

SyncIQ replicates data directory and all sub directories..

Where I get fuzzy is where are the "shares kept"?  In the Celerra world its all contained in the VDM and the VDM can get replicated.

So if I wanted to fail resources over to TARGET array, I'm just not clear how that is do that.  Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,