Stage 1 is meant for backing up your application into SWIFT. If you don’t want a DR cluster running, you can perform a Stage 1 sync for cost optimization. In this stage1 sync, you sync between your source cluster to the SWIFT. All sync selected cluster volumes are captured in the SWIFT DB. Every volume is captured to its image in the SWIFT.
Pre-requisite:
1. Discover the source cluster.
2. Create the Storage pool --> Pls refer below KB link:
https://rackware.freshdesk.com/a/solutions/articles/5000889816?lang=en
1.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 screenshot.
2. Now yo just select your source cluster and choose storage pool and put the image group name. As you can see below screenshot we have selected the IBM cluster at source and at target side there will be a storage pool that we have created in SWIFT.
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.
