Hi Neil,  Creating Shares: you will have to create shares and also quotas on your target. They won't get created during failover. be carefull if you have shares with the same name - that will lead to conflicts.  If you have shares with the same name you will have to create a separate accesszone to make them available. It that is not the case it depends on your failover method.  1) You could just "inform" your users/application to use the separate cluster and they change it on their own 2) you could modify the DNS-Delegation/smartconnectzone to ask the US Cluster instead of the UK Cluster  either way you should think about it upfront and not while you failover.  So create a share on the DR Site when you create a share on the source. always think about: when you can't reach the cluster you want to make the other site available immediately. I guess you don't want to use the time to reconfigure your target [IMAGE]  Questions to ask: 1) How much time do I have to make the DR Site available 2) What informations (additional to the data) do I need (Shares, Quotas) 3) How does my User/Application connect to the DR Site 4) What can I prepare upfront  There are tools which can automate failover processes and provide shareinformation on the DR site  Also an extended form of replication which will replicate shares and quotainformation is on the roadmap.
Hi guys,  I am a newbie to EMC and am working on a customer site to complete an Isilon installation.  I have changed the names to simplify things and hopefully it makes sense.  I plan on replicating once a day UK->US & US ->UK at the Clustername level in the file system structure.  The System Zone and AccessZone are both configured to access the customer.com AD Domain only (i.e. no LDAP, etc anywhere)  US Cluster ADS -> Customer.com /ifs/data/USCluster/AccessZone/Projects/Data (to be replicated to the UK) /ifs/data/UKCluster/AccessZone/Projects/Data (replicated from the UK) UK Cluster ADS-> Customer.com (same as US) /ifs/data/UKCluster/AccessZone/Projects/Data (to replicate to the US) /ifs/data/USCluster/AccessZone/roject/Data (replicated from the US).  My questions are: 1.  Is this a correct/best practice way to setup the file system? 2.  Will there be any issues with authentication/AccessZones when in a failed over state? 3.  Are there any tips / suggestions on failing clients over? 4.  I understand we have some scripts to replicate/copy over the configurations?  Is it possible to access these scripts somewhere?  I hope someone can advise me further  Thanks in advance  Neil [IMAGE]
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