While setting up SRM with NetApp 6290 at a customer site, my customer was using Qtrees and Qtree SnapMirror which caused us few issues. If you are setting up SRM and using NetApp Qtree SnapMirror, there is quite few warnings, limitations, and best practices that you will need to be aware of. I have listed the most common ones below, though for a more complete list you should check the following document: http://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4064.pdf
– Avoid using hidden Qtrees as that seems to cause problems with several versions of the NetApp SRM SRA. One of the most common errors caused by such configuration is:
Error: Failed to sync data on replica device ‘/vol/volume_name/lun#. Device found is neither of SAN type nor of the NAS type. Ensure that the device exists on the storage array and is of type NAS or SAN.
Best Practice
If you are using SRM with NetApp Qtree then the above warnings and best practices are definitely worth checking out.
Hi,
Thanks for the article, very useful!
I was wondering if you experienced any issues completing a SRM test failover against a datastore using qtrees? We are experiencing an issue where the test fails complaining about flexclone licensing (flexclone licenses are in place)
An actual failover works okay.
Kind regards
Olly
Hi Olly, it might be something with the way you have configured flexclone. Please note SRM does not use flexclone for an actual failover where it only use it for a test failover which explain why a real failover work for you but not a test failover.