Can SRM use NetApp VSC quiesced VM backups?

[okeedokee]

We're using VSC to quiesce VMs and back them up, then initiate a SnapMirror replication. SRM only sees the most recent snapshot, which is the SnapMirror's and not the VSC snapshot. So when we test, VMs are spun up and filesystems have to be checked because the quiesced VM is not what is being used.

How can I get SRM to use the most recent VSC (smvi_datastore1_timestamp-here) snapshot?

Thanks

[marcelo_soares]

I am not a NetApp specialist, but this shoud be totally up to snapmirror. I really believe you can replicate after quiescing the VMs. SRM will only see the replica for failover, never uses snapshots (only for tests).

[okeedokee · Accepted solution]

This doc ( http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3671.pdf ) for SRM 4 has my answer...

>> By default the NetApp adapter recovers FlexVol volumes to the last replication point transferred by NetApp

SnapMirror. The 1.4.3 release of the NetApp SRM adapter provides the capability to recover NetApp

volume snapshots created by NetApp SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure. This feature is not available in

NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Replication Adapter 2.0 for SRM 5.

Regards

[okeedokee]

Also not available with SRA 2.0.1.