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Hendrajaya

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July 10th, 2017 19:00

Unity Replication Test procedure

Hi,

my customer has a VMFS data store that is replicating to DR site, but from replication session they we cannot mount/copy the synch'ed replication.

is there a way to perform this test on DR site without performing actual failover to DR site.

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kelleg
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Posted July 11th, 2017 09:00
See page 22 in the "Replication Roles" section of the "Unity: Replication Technologies - A Detailed Review.pdf" available on support.emc.com

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Hendrajaya
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Hi Glen,

so, with the below statement in the Unity replication detailed review:

"To view the data contained in the destination storage resource, you may take a Snapshot of the resource and provide host access to it."

does it means, when snapshot is created on the target LUN, it will capture the latest synchronized snapshot
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AndreD Dell
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Posted July 12th, 2017 00:00
Hi Hendrajaya

So before you create that snap, you need to make sure that the replication session is fully in sync. Then create your snap, mount to host and check.

If the source LUN changes a lot very quickly, then you know the target will most likely never be in sync fully unless we are talking about sync rep (and not async).

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Posted July 12th, 2017 01:00
Hi Andre,

Thanks. I managed to tried it using vlab demo.