Oracle® Solaris Cluster Data Services Planning and Administration Guide

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Updated: September 2014, E39648–02
 
 

Delegating the Failover or Switchover of a Resource Group

The source resource group of a strong positive affinity cannot fail over or be switched over to a node where the target of the affinity is not running. If you require the source resource group of a strong positive affinity to be allowed to fail over or be switched over, you must delegate the failover to the target resource group. When the target of the affinity fails over, the source of the affinity is forced to fail over with the target.


Note -  You might need to switch over the source resource group of a strong positive affinity that is specified by the ++ operator. In this situation, switch over the target of the affinity and the source of the affinity at the same time.

To delegate failover or switchover of a resource group to another resource group, declare on the resource group a strong positive affinity with failover delegation for the other resource group.

# clresourcegroup set|create source-rg -p RG_affinities=+++target-rg
source-rg

Specifies the resource group that is delegating failover or switchover. This resource group is the resource group on which you are declaring a strong positive affinity with failover delegation for another resource group.

-p RG_affinities=+++target-rg

Specifies the resource group to which source-rg delegates failover or switchover. This resource group is the resource group for which you are declaring a strong positive affinity with failover delegation.

A resource group may declare a strong positive affinity with failover delegation for at most one resource group. However, a given resource group may be the target of strong positive affinities with failover delegation that are declared by any number of other resource groups.

A strong positive affinity with failover delegation is not fully symmetric. The target can come online while the source remains offline. However, if the target is offline, the source cannot come online.

If the target declares a strong positive affinity with failover delegation for a third resource group, failover or switchover is further delegated to the third resource group. The third resource group performs the failover or switchover, forcing the other resource groups to fail over or be switched over also.

Example 2-52  Delegating the Failover or Switchover of a Resource Group

This example shows the command for modifying resource group rg1 to declare a strong positive affinity with failover delegation for resource group rg2. As a result of this affinity relationship, rg1 delegates failover or switchover to rg2. This example assumes that both resource groups exist.

# clresourcegroup set -p RG_affinities=+++rg2 rg1