<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">If you're an old school command line jockey then you'll appreciate the steps I have for you.  </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">It's all about configuring remote replication between two EMC Celerra NS Series devices - these get used a lot for scenarios like VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).  Of particular note is that you'll likely want to use Celerra Replicator V2 - which is available for old and new NS Arrays alike as long as they are running <strong>DART OS 5.6.36 or above</strong>.  Bon appetit!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><!--more--></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In my config, I have two Celerra Sims (See: <a href="http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2008/06/get-yer-celerra.html">http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2008/06/get-yer-celerra.html</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">NOTE: All of this assumes your NS "file systems" that house your iSCSI LUNs are set up in a best practices format for replication.  Read more at:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://localhost/eGroup/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/vmware-esx-srvr-using-emc-celerra-stor-sys-wp.pdf">http://localhost/eGroup/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/vmware-esx-srvr-using-emc-celerra-stor-sys-wp.pdf</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong>Production: (CNS stands for Celerra Network Server)</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">CNS Name: celerra-sim</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Control Station IP: 192.168.1.72</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">iSCSI target on DM server_2: 192.168.1.74 (we have LUN 10, an iSCSI LUN, that is suitable for replication)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">* NOTE: DM stands for Data Mover - it's like a purpose-built, high-performance server blade</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong>DR:</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">CNS Name: celerra-sim-dr</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Control Station IP: 192.168.2.72</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">iSCSI target on DM server_2: 192.168.2.74 (we have a read-only LUN 10, an iSCSI LUN, that is "target" suitable for replication)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">STEP 1: Set up mutual trusts between Celerras</span></span></em></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This trust needs to be setup in both directions; primary to secondary, and secondary to</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">primary. The passphrase must be the same in both cases:</span></span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">celerra-sim:</span></span></em></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[nasadmin@celerra-sim ~]$ nas_cel -create celerra-sim-dr -ip 192.168.2.72 –passphrase nasadmin</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">celerra-sim-dr:</span></span></em></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[nasadmin@celerra-sim-dr ~]$ nas_cel -create celerra-sim -ip 192.168.1.72 –passphrase nasadmin</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">STEP 2: Configure the Data Movers to converse and share replicated data</span></span></em></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">celerra-sim:</span></span></em></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[nasadmin@celerra-sim ~]$ nas_cel -interconnect -create celerra-sim-to-celerra-sim-dr -source_server</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">server_2 -destination_system celerra-sim-dr -destination_server server_2 -source_interfaces</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">ip=192.168.1.74 -destination_interfaces ip=192.168.2.74</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">celerra-sim-dr:</span></span></em></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[nasadmin@celerra-sim-dr ~]$ nas_cel -interconnect -create celerra-sim-dr-to-celerra-sim -source_server</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">server_2 -destination_system celerra-sim -destination_server server_2 -source_interfaces</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">ip=192.168.2.74 –destination_interfaces ip=192.168.1.74</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Note: Perform this interconnect from both directions; primary to secondary and</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">secondary to primary. If you only set it from one side replication will only work in</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">one direction.  The interconnect must be the same in both cases.</span></span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">STEP 3: Establish Replication from the primary Celerra to the secondary Celerra</span></span></em></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">celerra-sim:</span></span></em></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[nasadmin@celerra-sim ~]$ server_iscsi server_2 –target –l</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This will provide the Celerra VSA IQN number for the next command</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">celerra-sim-dr:</span></span></em></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[nasadmin@celerra-sim-dr ~]$ server_iscsi server_2 –target –l</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This will provide the Celerra VSA IQN number for the next command</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">celerra-sim (only):</span></span></em></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[nasadmin@celerra-sim ~]$ nas_replicate -create iscsi-srm-replication -source -lun 10 -target iqn.1992-05.com.eGroup-us:bb0050568a59e40000-3 -destination -lun 10 -target iqn.1992-05.com.eGroup-us:bb0050569a3d070000-3 -interconnect celerra-sim-to-celerra-sim-dr -source_interface ip=192.168.1.74 -destination_interface ip=192.168.2.74 -overwrite_destination</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">celerra-sim:</span></span></em></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[nasadmin@celerra-sim ~]$ nas_replicate -l</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">celerra-sim-dr:</span></span></em></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[nasadmin@celerra-sim-dr ~]$ nas_replicate –l</span></span></p>