You can break a protection relationship from the Volume / Health details page and stop data transfers between a source and destination volume in a SnapMirror relationship. You might break a relationship when you want to migrate data, for disaster recovery, or for application testing. The destination volume is changed to a read-write volume. You cannot break a SnapVault relationship.
Before you begin
- You must have the Application Administrator or Storage Administrator role.
- You must have set up Workflow Automation.
Steps
- In the Protection tab of the Volume / Health details page, select from the topology the SnapMirror relationship you want to break.
- Right-click the destination and select Break from the menu.
The Break Relationship dialog box is displayed.
- Click Continue to break the relationship.
- In the topology, verify that the relationship is broken.