QuestionQ16

Disaster Recovery

You need to protect a complete SVM and all its data volumes, and you have chosen to use SnapMirror SVM. The DR cluster is on a different subnet than the production cluster, and the destination SVM must also remain online and serve data read-only.

Which option would you configure to meet both goals?

  • A Set the -type option to automated-failover in the applied snapmirror policy.
  • B Use the -identity-preserve option set to false in the snapmirror create command.
  • C Set the -discard-configs option to network in the applied snapmirror policy.
  • D Use the -identity-preserve option set to true in the snapmirror create command.
Explanation

In ONTAP SVM disaster-recovery relationships, the -identity-preserve option determines whether the destination SVM inherits the source SVM's network configuration (LIFs, routes, protocols). Setting -identity-preserve to false decouples the destination SVM's network identity from the source, so the destination can be configured with its own LIFs appropriate for a different subnet at the DR site, brought online, and used to serve data in read-only mode independently of the source. With -identity-preserve true, the destination replicates the source's exact network configuration, which requires the destination to be reachable on the same network and keeps it in a stopped, non-data-serving state until an actual failover occurs.

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