Hi,
Thanks to all those who helped me over the Networking problem...
Now on to bigger/better/harder things.
As I mentioned, the customer had a F720 shipped in. When I configured it, I just threw everything into vol0.
Now when I look to use SNAPMIRROR to mirror from "A" filer to "B" filer, I can do it by volumes only. Am I correct isn ASSuM(E)ing that if I mirror "vol0" I'll clobber the configuration of "B" filer?
I decided to believe this was correct, and reloaded the "B" filer. I created a "vol1" on it with the remaining 5 disks. In attempting to setup the snapmirror, it now complains that the volume is on-line. Um, how is it going to let people still access it if it goes offline?
So to see where I can get myself into more trouble, I offline it, reboot, and now its complaining they are different sizes.
I have a feeling there is A BUNCH of confusion on my part. Maybe if I say what I want, someone can shoot the clue-gun at me.
I want only 1 computer to have update access to filer "A". This will be the host that updates the content on the disk. 3 other computers will have this mounted RO. I will also have filer "B". 4 computers will have this mounted RO. I'd like to have "A" filer copy the content to "B" filer once every (??? not sure yet, say minute to be on the safe side ???).
Thanks, Tuc/TTSG
Some general snapmirror rules and behaviors.
1) The snapmirror destination must have at least two volumes. The root volume cannot be the read-only snapmirror destination.
2) The snapmirror source volume must be on-line, and can be the root volume.
3) The destination volume must start off-line. After the first transfer, it will be brought on-line. Subsequent transfers will be run while the volume is on-line. Only the first transfer must have the destination off-line.
4) The capacity of snapmirror destination must be greater than or equal to the capacity of the source volume (otherwise, where are you going to mirror the data into when the source fills up?)
5) If replication is between two different filers, they must be able to ping each other.
I think the error messages have been guiding you down the appropriate path, which is what they were meant to do. I suspect you don't have enough capacity on the snapmirror destination. You probably need to add disks...
Stephen Manley Data Availability and Management "Top 5" List Maker