Anyone have a good Disaster Recovery Procedure for when the primary filer would fail?
Our environment: OnTap 6.4.2 for F960 (primary filer) w/ R150 (nearStore) which contains snap mirrors of the F960 data volumes... all in a Windows 2000 AD domain. Filers are used by CIFS clients only (9x, NT4, W2k, XP).
If the F960 would "die", we would want to break the snap mirror to the R150 and make this data read/write. Additionally, we thought we could give the R150 a Netbios alias name equal to the F960. We probably would have WINS and DNS changes to make as well and we would need to recreate the shared folders and quota settings on the R150. We do snap mirror the vol0 of the F960 to a volume on the R150. And, of course, how would you revert back to the F960 upon it's "rebirth".
Anyone have experience or some "best practices" for such a process. Thanks!
Paul M. Brubaker, Jr. NDCO ESAM MS Server Distributed AT&T Wireless - Harrisburg PA e-mail: paul.brubaker@attws.com office #: 717-526-5011 cell #: 717-578-2254