Preparing the fire drill configuration

Last published : Aug 05, 2026
In a Volume Replicator environment, when preparing the fire drill configuration, the wizard does the following:
  • Replaces the RVGPrimary resources with VVRSnap resources in the fire drill service group
  • Uses the SFW HA VxSnap feature to prepare snapshot mirrors for use during the fire drill
While running the wizard, you assign one or more disks for the mirrored volumes. Mirror preparation can take some time, so you can exit the wizard after this step is started and let the preparation continue in the background.
  • Sets the offline-local-firm dependency between the service groups, where the fire drill service group is the parent and the application service group is the child
  • Configures the VVRSnap resource by setting the following attributes to the appropriate values:
    • RVG
    • AppDiskGroupName
    • DiskGroupName
  • Sets the FireDrill attribute of the following resources to t``rue:
    • IP
    • Lanman
    • RegRep
  • Sets the ForFireDrill attribute of the following resources totrue in the fire drill service group:
    • MountV
    • VMDg
This indicates that the volume being monitored by the VVRSnap agent belongs to the fire drill disk group.