Fire Drill Configurations

Gold Configuration

Runs the fire drill on a snapshot of the target array.

Involves the following steps:

• Suspend replication to get a consistent snapshot.
• Take a snapshot of the target array on a ShadowImage device.
• Modify the disk name and the disk group name in the snapshot.
• Bring the fire drill service group online using the snapshotted data.



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Note    For Gold configurations, you must use VERITAS Volume Manager to import and deport the storage.

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Silver Configuration

Runs the fire drill on the target array after taking a snapshot.

Involves the following steps:

• Suspend replication to get a consistent snapshot.
• Take a snapshot of the target array on a ShadowImage device.
• Bring the fire drill service group online using the data on the target array.

The Silver configuration can only be used with ShadowImage pairs created with the -m noread flag to the paircreate command.

Bronze Configuration

Runs the fire drill on the target array. No snapshots are taken.

Involves the following steps:

• Suspend replication to get a consistent snapshot.
• Bring the fire drill service group online using the data on the target array.