How to Switch Over an EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Protection Group From Primary to Secondary

Before You Begin

For a successful switchover, data replication must be active between the primary and the secondary clusters and data volumes on the two clusters must be synchronized.

Before you switch over a protection group from the primary cluster to the secondary cluster, ensure that the following conditions are met:

• The Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software is up and running on the both clusters.

• The secondary cluster is a member of a partnership.

• Both cluster partners can be reached.

• The protection group is in the OK state.

If you have configured the Cluster_dgs property, only applications that belong to the protection group can write to the device groups specified in the Cluster_dgs property.

1. Log in to a cluster node.

   You must be assigned the Geo Management RBAC rights profile to complete this procedure. For more information about RBAC, see Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Software and RBAC in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition System Administration Guide.

2. Initiate the switchover.

   The application resource groups that are a part of the protection group are stopped and started during the switchover.

   # geopg switchover [-f] -m newprimarycluster protectiongroupname

   -f

   Forces the command to perform the operation without asking you for confirmation

   -m newprimarycluster

   Specifies the name of the cluster that is to be the new primary cluster for the protection group

   protectiongroupname

   Specifies the name of the protection group

Example 3–1 Forcing a Switchover From Primary to Secondary

This example performs a switchover to the secondary cluster.

# geopg switchover -f -m cluster-newyork srdfpg