Which ONTAP feature enables full SVM disaster recovery including LIFs, volumes, and configuration?

Which ONTAP feature enables full SVM disaster recovery including LIFs, volumes, and configuration?

• A. MetroCluster
• B. SVM SnapMirror
• C. FlexGroup replication
• D. SnapMirror Business Continuity

Answer: (B)

SVM SnapMirror is designed to mirror an entire Storage Virtual Machine, not just the data inside individual volumes. This means the SVM’s networking components (LIFs), the volumes themselves, and the SVM configuration are all replicated to a secondary ONTAP system. With this in place, you can fail over the SVM to the DR site and come up with the same LIF IPs, access paths, and volume state, enabling a complete SVM-level disaster recovery. MetroCluster is a broader site-level DR solution that handles data replication and failover across clusters, but it isn’t the mechanism specifically focused on preserving every aspect of an SVM’s configuration and LIFs. FlexGroup replication targets the data within FlexGroups, not the full SVM networking and configuration. SnapMirror Business Continuity adds automated failover capabilities around SnapMirror data, but achieving full SVM-state DR, including LIFs and SVM settings, relies on SVM SnapMirror.

SVM SnapMirror is designed to mirror an entire Storage Virtual Machine, not just the data inside individual volumes. This means the SVM’s networking components (LIFs), the volumes themselves, and the SVM configuration are all replicated to a secondary ONTAP system. With this in place, you can fail over the SVM to the DR site and come up with the same LIF IPs, access paths, and volume state, enabling a complete SVM-level disaster recovery.

MetroCluster is a broader site-level DR solution that handles data replication and failover across clusters, but it isn’t the mechanism specifically focused on preserving every aspect of an SVM’s configuration and LIFs. FlexGroup replication targets the data within FlexGroups, not the full SVM networking and configuration. SnapMirror Business Continuity adds automated failover capabilities around SnapMirror data, but achieving full SVM-state DR, including LIFs and SVM settings, relies on SVM SnapMirror.