I'm trying to get a basic understanding of the procedure for failover to DR. Here's what I'm working with...
My production site has VMware vSphere 6.7 hosts and a NetApp AFF A200 running ONTAP 9.4
My DR site has VMware vSphere 6.7 hosts and a NetApp FAS-2650 running ONTAP 9.4
The NetApp storage at both sites has iSCSI LUNs for the ESXi hypervisor installation and vSphere datastores
I have mirror and vault Protection Relationships from production to DR
Here's what I have so far for the procedure. Is this a good starting point to begin some testing and detailed documentation of the process? I am not using VMware SRM or using whole-SVM replication.
Failover
1. Break the Protection Relationships
2. Create FlexClone LUNs from the mirror LUNs
3. Split the FlexClone LUNs from parent
4. Mount FlexClone LUNs as datastores to vSphere
5. Register and power on VMs
Failback
1. Create Protection Relationships and allow data to transfer
2. Break the Protection Relationships
3. Create FlexClone LUNs from the mirror LUNs
4. Split the FlexClone LUNs from parent
5. Mount FlexClone LUNs as datastores to vSphere
6. Register and power on VMs