- Stage 1 is meant for backing up your application into SWIFT.
- For this, you will need storage — you must add a storage pool in SWIFT.
# To perform the stage1 replication here are the Pre-requisite to follow.
- Discover the source cluster.
- Create the Storage pool --> Pls refer this KB link:
https://rackware.freshdesk.com/a/solutions/articles/5000889816?lang=en
1. Before starting Stage 1 replication, you need to add the storage pool. For the steps to add a storage pool, please refer to the KB article below.
https://rackware.freshdesk.com/a/solutions/articles/5000889816?lang=en
2. Once you add the storage pool, you can start the Stage 1 replication. For this, you only need to select the source cluster, and the other side will be your storage pool. To do this, go to the ‘All Replications’ section under the Sync Administration tab, click the ‘New’ button, then choose ‘Application Replication’ and select ‘Stage-1 Replication’. Please refer below snippet.
3. Now yo just select your source cluster and choose storage pool and put the image group name. As you can see bwlo snippet we have selected the IBM cluster at source and at target side there will be a storage pool that we have created in SWIFT.
# And we have also put the image group as per convenient for Image group.
4. Now, in the TRAIPOD options, you can select the IP Type, TRAI Ports, and TRAIPOD Config, just like in the Passthrough sync.
In our case, we selected Auto Port and chose the Image Registry for the TRAIPOD configuration.
5. Now you can click on 'Add' button to start the stage1- sync.
6. Once added, it will indicate that Stage 1 has started. As you can see in the snippet below, the Source will be your primary cluster, and the Target will be your image group name.
# Now stage has been completed as you can see below snippet.
7. Now, you can verify whether your application has been successfully backed up in the Image Group.
Go to Business Continuity and DR, select Image Group, and choose the image group name you provided during the sync process. You will see the images of your application listed there. Please refer to the snippet below.
# expand that image group and see Image section.
