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How to Prepare and Test a Riverbed SteelStore Warm Disaster Recovery

A Riverbed SteelStore warm disaster recovery uses two SteelStore appliances (a primary and a secondary) in a peer replication configuration.

In peer replication, the primary appliance replicates the data and metadata to the cloud provider and also to the secondary appliance. You can use the primary appliance for both backup and access to the stored data. Use the secondary appliance for read-only access. You can mount the NFS exports of the primary using read-write access on the Linux server. You can mount the secondary for read access only.

Warm disaster recovery using peer replication provides a faster disaster recovery time. The secondary appliance provides immediate read access to data without the delays that are required to repopulate the secondary appliance from the cloud. The Best Practices provides the disaster recovery recommendations. Planning for Riverbed Cold Disaster Recovery continues to apply even when using peer replication.

The basic steps to configure Riverbed SteelStore for peer replication are:

1. Review the SteelStore documentation.
2. Prepare for disaster recovery.
3. Isolate Virtual Volume Volser Ranges.
4. Configure appliances for peer replication:
   1. Configure the primary appliance peer replication.
   2. Configure the secondary appliance peer replication.
   3. Complete primary appliance configuration.
5. Review the Peer Replication disaster recovery scenarios.