We are planning to a conduct DR test on our VDM CIFS environment. Let me explain our current setup. We have NS-120 with 1 VDM and 15 File systems mounted on that. We have configured replication for this filer to a remote location. Now we need to conduct a DR test for this file systems as requested by business. So my question is do i need to create any CIFS server on destination side or whether CIFS server will automatically create when I loaded and mounted the destination VDM. Also how about shares? Do we need to manually create shares on destination side? what is the process and procedure of performing the testing without impacting the production access?
As long as you are replicating at the VDM level and not the filesystem level, your servers and shares should move over with the replication. If you only replicated the filesystems and not the VDM, you will need to recreate any shares and servers you would need on the destination side.
what need to be done if I wanted to conduct a DR test only for a single file system under a VDM without interrupting other file systems operations on production side if the VDM replication is already in place.
While managed via Replicator, it is all-or-none in regards to the VDM and the filesystems, CIFS server, and shares associated with it. However, you could consider presenting a checkpoint of the target filesystem and present that via a separate CIFS server (on the physical data mover) as described in the both of the following KB article:
emc216579: "How to conduct an application test on destination side without stopping replication sessions"
emc146081: "Celerra IP Replication: How do I access through CIFS replicated read-only data at the Disaster Recovery site?"
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As long as you are replicating at the VDM level and not the filesystem level, your servers and shares should move over with the replication. If you only replicated the filesystems and not the VDM, you will need to recreate any shares and servers you would need on the destination side.