The storage virtual machine (SVM) Peering workflow enables you to create peer relationships between two storage virtual machines (SVMs, formerly known as Vservers). Peer relationships enable SVMs to communicate with other SVMs.
Establishing intercluster or intracluster peer relationships enables you to replicate data between different geographical locations or between storage virtual machines (SVMs, formerly known as Vservers) on different clusters.
The following sections provide details about the workflow and how to execute the workflow:
You must ensure that certain requirements are met before executing the storage virtual machine (SVM) workflow. You must be a cluster administrator for executing this workflow.
The storage virtual machine (SVM) Peering workflow enables you to create peer relationships between two SVMs.
After executing the workflow, you should verify the peer relationship by running the vserver peer show command in the clustered Data ONTAP CLI.
The following illustration displays the tasks involved in executing the workflow:
The storage virtual machine (SVM) Peering workflow enables you to select the required clusters and SVMs to establish the SVM peer relationship.
You must have reviewed the requirements for executing the workflow.
You should verify your peer relationship by running the vserver peer show command from the Data ONTAP command-line interface (CLI).
The command output displays the SVM state as peered.