Guys,

 

I'd require some input for a project I'm involved in. I have two sets of 3050 clusters in two sites. The primary site is serving CIFS data to home and project directories. The secondary site is just the snapvault destination, and tape backup source.

 

Now, we're planning to do a DR implementation for this setup. From what I can recall, there are a few things that you need to do to make it work:

1. have snapmirror and snapvault (SM-SV combo) license at the secondary site. I can turn a snapvaulted volume snapshot into a RW volume. Is that correct?

2. I copy the cifs shares config file from the primary filer, edit it a little bit, and paste it into the secondary filer

3. I need refresh my DNS server to point to the secondary filer IP address using the primary filer hostname.

 

Anything else that I need to do? I heard something about changing netbios names as well, but I don't really understand windows enough to know what that will do to help with the DR.

 

Oh, and also, the MS active directory domain are running on win2k3 servers. I'm assuming that different AD versions will significantly in make DR implementations different?

 

Thanks for any feedback