That makes sense. Mirroring is a node to node operation. If it cannot communicate directly between the nodes on the intercluster interfaces, it will fail.
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Momonth momonth@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Andrei, I appreciate your effort, and I actually concluded the same on 8.2.3.
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:12 AM, andrei.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com andrei.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com wrote:
As I am on training anyway, I tried what happens if I use only partial
intercluster connectivity. The result is
- I can in principle establish peer relationship if not all nodes have
intercluster LIFs, but this relationship is shown as "partial" then.
- snapmirror does not work in this case. I.e. if I have node1 with
intercluster LIF and node2 with aggregate and volume, attempt to update snapmirror simply times out.
- that happens also if I initially have full mesh and later remove one
intercluster LIF from configuration (also modifying cluster peer relationship)
So it looks like connection always happens to node that owns volume and
answer to your question is "no". This is with 8.3.2P2.