© 2006 Symantec CorporationData Center Management Group – Symantec Confidential 21 What is VCS Fire Drill? Fire Drill is a cloned VCS Service Group mo
{"Image DocumentName": "What is VCS Fire Drill?Fire Drill is a cloned VCS Service Group modified to use snapshot storage. Fire Drill:", "Image ImageDescription": "Creates snapshot. Configures snapshot. Imports snapshot. Mounts snapshot. Starts SG on the mount. Requires SF 5.0. Any errors are logged by VCS. Fire Drill SGs are isolated from production SGs. Primary Site. Secondary Site. Prod SG. FD SG. \uf0fc VCS. Fire Drill splits BCV snaps at remote site, mounts the BCV, then starts the SG on the mount. Requires SF 5.0: BCV of a VM diskgroup will create 2 identical diskgroups; SF 5.0 renames the DG on the BCV\u2019s so VM can import them. Fire Drill SGs are isolated from production SGs, ensuring no production impact. Prevents concurrency violation. Walkthrough. Setup: VCS HA/DR running as normal. Click 1: Initiate Fire Drill. The Fire Drill Agent takes a snapshot of the replicated data (Business Continuity Volume). Click 2: Mount Snapshot. Fire Drill modifies the snapshot volume metadata (via Storage Foundation 5.0) so that the snapshot can be re-imported back on the original host. Fire Drill imports the BCV and mounts the necessary filesystems. Click 3: Test App. Fire Drill starts up the target Service Group and all its required resources. The test SG is a clone of the production SG and does not impact production. The Service Group starts successfully and we know that we are fully protected at this point in time. Click 4: Reset. Fire Drill shuts down the target SG, unmounts the snapshot and returns the snapshot storage to the array. replicate. Snapshot.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}