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Veeam Support NetApp SnapMirror Active Sync

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Hello *,

what are the detailed supported features and limitations regarding veeam's integration with NetApp SnapMirror Active Sync?
After reading the veeam docs it is a little bit unclear what is supported/possible and what not:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

Veeam Backup & Replication does not support the listed replication features of the secondary storage arrays. However, you can use volumes with these configured features as sources for backup.
- SnapMirror Active-Sync (formerly SnapMirror Business Continuity (SM-BC))


Will it be possible to replicate data/snapshots of a SM-AS source volume via snapmirror async to another netapp backup system with veeam (snapmirror/snapvault udate via secondary target)?
So SM-AS source has two relationships:

1.) Replication with SM-AS (not Veeam integrated / out of veeam scope)

2.) Replication with SnapMirror Async to third netapp system (Veeam VMware Backup Job with secondary target as snapmirror/snapvault update).

Thanks in advance!

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Re: Veeam Support NetApp SnapMirror Active Sync

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Hi Marcel,

For us it's all about the relationship you configure. We won't detect and be able to work with sm-as but we will be able to work with regular relationships. So your 2) should work as long as NetApp supports it.

As I don't have access to a lab right now can't guarantee it.

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Re: Veeam Support NetApp SnapMirror Active Sync

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Hello Stefan,

thanks for your reply.
Is it possible for you to test the configuration in a lab?
It would be very nice to officially know how veeam behaves and what is possible without any errors.
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Re: Veeam Support NetApp SnapMirror Active Sync

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We verified that Active-Sync relationships don't affect the current functionality of Veeam B&R in the past.
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Re: Veeam Support NetApp SnapMirror Active Sync

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Hello,

Snapmirror Active Sync seems supported. I am testing a backup with an SMAS and i got this error :
Failed to create snapshot for volume VOL_1_dest Error:
Snapshot copy create failed on volume "VOL_1_dest" in Vserver "svm01".
Snapshot copy create operation is not supported on destination of SnapMirror active sync relationship with policy-type "automated-failover-duplex".

Du you have any informations ?
Thank you.
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As mentioned above and in a user guide, Active-Sync relationships themselves are not supported - Veeam B&R is not able to detect and use them to create snapshots on the destination side. What you can do though, is use volumes in such relationships as source volumes for backup.
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Re: Veeam Support NetApp SnapMirror Active Sync

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Hi foggy, just to get correctly...a a collegue of mine asked me "hey look at veeam the KB, Snapmirror Active-Sync is possible".
Veeam Backup & Replication does not support the listed replication features of the secondary storage arrays. However, you can use volumes with these configured features as sources for backup.

- MetroCluster
- SVM-DR
- Synchronous SnapMirror
- SnapMirror Active-Sync (formerly SnapMirror Business Continuity (SM-BC))
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

I understand that Veeam can't trigger this technologies to replicate, but the article says it's possible as source. In Case of Metrocluster and SVM-DR i know creating a storage snapshot on source (maybe temporary AUX...) is possible. Is this also working for the others? Don't have a Lab System at the moment. So only "source snapshot for backup from Storage snapshots?

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Re: Veeam Support NetApp SnapMirror Active Sync

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Hi Matthias, yes, even though such relationships are not detected (so replication is not possible), they don't affect the functionality that doesn't need them (like creating a snapshot as a source for backup).
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