Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility

Detecting Primary Cluster Failure

When the primary cluster for a protection group fails, the secondary cluster in the partnership detects the failure. The cluster that fails might be a member of more than one partnership, resulting in multiple failure detections.

The following actions take place when a primary cluster failure occurs. During a failure, the appropriate protection groups are in the Unknown state on the cluster that failed.