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Measures reported by NetCluVserPeerTest

Vserver peer relationship is an authorization infrastructure that enables a cluster administrator to set up peering applications such as SnapMirror relationships between Vservers either existing within a cluster (intracluster) or in the peered clusters (intercluster). Only a cluster administrator can set up Vserver peer relationships.

Vserver peer infrastructure enables you to set up a backup and recovery mechanism between Vservers. You can set up mirroring relationship at volume level between peered Vservers. If a Vserver's volume becomes unavailable, the cluster administrator or a Vserver administrator can configure the respective mirrored volume of the peered Vserver to serve data.

One Vserver can be peered with multiple Vservers within a cluster or across clusters. In clustered Data ONTAP 8.2, only SnapMirror data protection (DP), vault (XDP) and load-sharing relationship (LS) relationships can be set up by using the Vserver peer infrastructure.

For a hassle free data transfer through the NetApp Cluster, administrators need to constantly monitor the state of the Vserver peer relationship failing which administrators may not be able to figure out the Vserver through which data transfer stopped abruptly. This test exactly helps the administrators achieve this!

This test auto-discovers the Vservers on the NetApp Cluster and reports the current state of the Vserver peer relationship for each Vserver.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
State Indicates the current state of this Vserver peer relationship.   The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values have been listed in the table below.

Measure Value Numeric Value Description
Peered 1 Indicates either one of the following:

  • An intercluster Vserver peer relationship is accepted from the peered cluster.
  • An intracluster Vserver peer relationship is established.
  • An intercluster or intracluster Vserver peer relationship is resumed.
Pending 2 An intercluster Vserver peer relationship is requested from the local cluster.
Initializing 3 The local cluster is communicating with the peer cluster for initializing the Vserver peer relationship.
Initiated 4 An intercluster Vserver peer relationship is requested from the local cluster.
Deleted 5 An intercluster Vserver peer relationship isdeleted from any of the peered clusters.
Suspended 6 An intercluster or intracluster Vserver peer relationship is suspended from the local or peered cluster.
Rejected 7 An intercluster Vserver peer relationship is rejected from the peered cluster.

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned Measure Values while indicating the current state of this Vserver peer. However, in the graph of this measure, states will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents i.e., 1 to 7.