Just a shot in the dark at the moment Does you ax4-5 have the Navisphere Manager enabler and expansion pack enabler installed?  >>bash-3.2$ ./NaviSECCli.exe  -User admin -Password xx -Scope 0 -h xx snapview  -startsession xx_VMWARE_SRM_SESSION -snapshotid xx -consistentError: snapview command failedOnly persistent sessions are allowed on this storage system. The following switch must be specified: -persistence  Would indicate you are missing software, maybe?  From the SRM Matrix: AX4-5 with the Navisphere Manager enabler and expansion pack enabler installed    Regards Gearoid
Hi,  We're trying to setup SRM with the EMC Mirrorview SRA on a EMC AX4-5F. We installed all the licenses and replication is up and running. But when do a test run, SRM is trying to make a consistent snap which is failing:  with result: Failed (Navisphere CLI command: ' snapview -startsession XXXX_VMWARE_SRM_SESSION -snapshotid XX  -consistent '  When we try to make the snapshot by hand, same error:  bash-3.2$ ./NaviSECCli.exe  -User admin -Password xx -Scope 0 -h xx snapview  -startsession xx_VMWARE_SRM_SESSION -snapshotid xx -consistentError: snapview command failedOnly persistent sessions are allowed on this storage system. The following switch must be specified: -persistence  When we start the session in persistent mode, session can be created:  bash-3.2$ ./NaviSECCli.exe  -User admin -Password xx -Scope 0 -h xx snapview  -startsession xx_VMWARE_SRM_SESSION -snapshotid xx -persistence You must activate a snapshot on this session before you can access it.   According to the manual:  Note For AX4-5 series,   persistent mode is always enabled and consistent mode is supported only    if you have the SnapView enabler installed. For AX series storage  systems,   persistent mode is always enabled and consistent mode is not supported.  Is there a way to enable SRM to maken persistent snap in stead of consistent snaps.  Regards, John Grinwis
AX4-5F, SRM and consistent snapshots