ISILON SyncIQ Remote Replication Explained

Alright guys... Here I come with my ISILON SyncIQ 7.1 Remote Replication setup on two clusters. To be noted, this is an IP based remote replication and not a Fiber based replication wherein we can expect high amount of traffic / data flow in seconds.

So for the SyncIQ to work correctly, we require two ISILON Clusters with identical Source and Target directories. You can replicate SMB or NFS shares as well.

Lets start with the SyncIQ policy creation: (Click to expand)

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Once the policy is created, we can modify the policy settings as per business requirements and also stop/start it.

So for testing, I added one more policy to see how both the policies react. ISILON is intelligent enough to load balance both the policies as per their data size.

There is more to add to this post, but I would suggest referring the ISILON OneFS 7.1 Web guide or the CLI guide which gives more uses of SyncIQ and how we can customize the policies.