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How Asynchronous Mirroring Works
Data on the secondary volume must support a site-level failover for disaster
recovery. For this reason, the data on the secondary volume is protected during
the synchronization process so that writes to the secondary volume do not render
the volume data unusable. Additionally, many applications require the use of
more than one volume, each of which must be mirrored in order to support a
site-level failover. In these cases, the set of volumes must be mirrored as a set,
and the synchronization process must coordinate the data movement and
synchronization intervals to create a consistent, usable data set on the secondary
storage array.
Configurating for
Asynchronous
Mirroring
Asynchronous mirroring operations are performed between controllers that have same
IDs on the primary and secondary storage arrays; that is, controller A on the primary
storage array interacts only with controller A on the secondary storage array and
controller B on the primary storage array interacts only with controller B on the
secondary storage array. Asynchronous mirroring operations are not attempted
between controllers that have different IDs. The network environment does not need
to provide connectivity between the controllers that have different IDs; however, it is
likely to be more cost effective to use a fabric/switch configuration that does provide
such connectivity, even though the firmware does not require it.
For Fibre Channel topology the Asynchronous Mirroring premium feature requires
that one host-side Fibre Channel port of each controller be dedicated to mirroring
operations. An additional requirement for connectivity is that the dedicated
asynchronous mirroring ports must be attached to a Fibre Channel Fabric. The
dedicated port is activated by the storage system administrator. Activating the
dedicated port is a different operation than enabling the premium feature. After you
activate the dedicated port you must enable the Asynchronous Mirroring premium
feature. Enabling the Asynchronous Mirroring premium feature performs these
actions:
Activates the storage array for Fibre Channel mirroring
Enables the controller firmware to support your creation of mirror groups and
mirror pairs
When mirror groups or mirror pairs exist, you cannot deactivate the Asynchronous
Mirroring premium feature.
An iSCSI topology does not require a dedicated port as with Fibre Channel. The
activation step is not required when setting up asynchronous mirroring over iSCSI.
The controller firmware maintains a list of remote storage arrays that the iSCSI
initiator attempts to establish sessions using all portals of the portal group. The first
portal that successfully establishes an iSCSI connection is used for all subsequent
communication with that remote storage array. If communication fails, a new session
is attempted using all portals in the portal group. iSCSI ports are configured at the
system level on a port-by-port basis. For configuration messaging and data transfer,
the communication between the controller uses these global settings:
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