text: The following steps must be completed to establish two systems in the IP partnerships: 
  
  1. The administrator configures the CHAP secret on both the systems. This step is not 
  mandatory, and users can choose to not configure the CHAP secret. 
  
  2. The administrator configures the system IP addresses on both local and remote systems 
  so that they can discover each other over the network. 
  
  3. 
  If you want to use VLANs, configure your LAN switches and Ethernet ports to use VLAN 
  tagging. 
  
  4. The administrator configures the systems ports on each node in both of the systems by 
  using the GUI (or the**cfgportip**CLI command), and completes the following steps: 
  
  a. Configure the IP addresses for remote copy data. 
  b. Add the IP addresses in the respective remote copy port group. 
  c. Define whether the host access on these ports over iSCSI is allowed. 
  
  5. The administrator establishes the partnership with the remote system from the local 
  system where the partnership state then changes to Partially_Configured_Local. 
  
  6. The administrator establishes the partnership from the remote system with the local 
  system. If this process is successful, the partnership state then changes to the 
  Fully_Configured, which implies that the partnerships over the IP network were 
  successfully established. The partnership state momentarily remains Not_Present before 
  moving to the Fully_Configured state. 
  
  7. The administrator creates MM, GM, and GM with Change Volume relationships. 
  
  **Partnership consideration**: When the partnership is created, no master or auxiliary 
  status is defined or implied. The partnership is equal. The concepts of*master or auxiliary*
  and*primary or secondary*apply to volume relationships only, not to system partnerships. 