You can use Storage Manager to protect your data by creating and managing
mirror relationships, vault relationships, and mirror and vault relationships.
You can also create and manage the Snapshot policies and schedules.
Mirror relationships
You can use Storage Manager to create and manage mirror relationships by using the mirror policy.
What lag time is
Lag time is the amount of time by which the destination system lags behind the source system.
Types of data protection relationships
Depending on your data protection and backup requirements, ThinkSystem Storage Manager for DM Series provides different types of protection relationships that enable you to protect data against accidental, malicious, or disaster-induced loss of data.
Understanding workloads supported by StrictSync and Sync policies StrictSync and Sync policies support all LUN-based applications with FC and iSCSI protocols, as well as NFSv3 and NFSv4 protocols for enterprise applications such as databases, VMWare, quota, CIFS, and so on. Starting with ONTAP 9.6, SnapMirror Synchronous can be used for enterprise file services such as electronic design automation (EDA), home directories, and software build workloads.
SnapMirror licensing
A SnapMirror license is required on both the source and destination clusters, with limited exceptions as defined below. A SnapVault license is not required if a SnapMirror license is already installed.
SVM Relationships
Storage virtual machine (SVM) disaster recovery (DR) provides disaster recovery capability at the SVM level by enabling the recovery of the data that is present in the constituent volumes of the SVM and the recovery of the SVM configuration.