Resignaturing questions

[Applepie]

Dear all,

I have a question about resignaturing. Will a replicated lun in the recovery site allways be detected as a snapshot lun and therefore it wil need a resignature? Or does it depend on the storage vendor/replication method? And what I can imagine is that a test failover will use a snapshot of the recovery lun and thus needs to be resignatured. But what if you do an actual failover of the replicated lun? It won't use a snapshot I guess, so resignaturing is not needed?

And is there a possibility to do a test failover and not to use a snapshot of the replica, but actually break the replication and directly use the replicated lun? I thought I read about this somewhere.

So many questions, but such a nice product..

Cheers!

Applepie

[gauche]

Resignaturing is necessary at the remote site. At least I know it is with LeftHand SANs.

SRM does the resignaturing automatically, even if you have not explicitly enabled it on the ESX servers.

Adam Carter

Technical Product Manager

LeftHand Networks

[system_ict]

Thank you for your answer Adam. We are actually using two Lefthands for SRM and it works great. Maybe I will get back to you for specific Lefthand questions... I appreciate it very much that you participate in this forum.

[Dinges]

oops..wrong account used..system.ict should be Applepie..