Peer persistence primera and snapshots

[lowlander]

Hi all,

we are designing a Veeam solution with a peer persistence functionality of HPE. Based on the Primera hardware we can synchronous replicate the a volume on the primary array with the target volume on the secondary primera array.

Can we use Veeam to schedule snapshots on the primary volume, and will these snapshots be replicated to the secondary array ?

thanks !

[Regnor]

While I'm no 3PAR/Primera expert I wouldn't be sure if snapshots get replicated.
Normally you have volumes in Remote Copy Groups and those get replicated to the target storage array. If you create scheduled snapshots via Veeam, they will be seen as an additional volumes and therefore not be part of the Remote Copy Group.
What you can do, when you backup via storage snapshots, is creating the snapshot on the target/secondary array.

But to be sure I would check with your Storage partner.

[foggy]

In 3PAR sync replica, there are two options: either an independent snapshot is created on one side of the relationship, or coordinated snapshots are created on both sides. Veeam B&R uses the first option, so the other side knows nothing about this snapshot.