Scheduling Volume Mirroring

Prerequisites

  • You must have the privilege to schedule mirroring.
  • The volume for which you are scheduling mirroring must be a mirror volume.

About this task

When you choose the mirror schedule, consider the amount of data on the volume and the load on the cluster. Remember that the mirroring frequency must allow enough time to complete one mirror operation before the next scheduled mirror operation starts. In addition, if you have a cascaded mirror setup (where A mirrors to B which mirrors to C), you cannot set a mirror schedule for C that starts before B finishes mirroring from A.

WARNING
Avoid setting a mirror schedule for more often than every 30 minutes.

Follow the steps given below to schedule mirroring on a volume.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the Data Fabric UI.
  2. Under the default Fabric user experience, click the Table view icon on the Resources card.
  3. In the tabular list of fabrics, click the down arrow for the fabric that contains the volume with which you wish to associate a mirroring schedule.
  4. Click the volume name seen under Resource name.
  5. Navigate to the Settings tab.
  6. Under Schedules, click the pencil icon seen next to Mirror.
  7. Select a suitable schedule option for the volume.
  8. Click Select.

Results

The selected schedule is applied to the volume and data mirroring is performed per the schedule.