This section describes a switchover failure scenario. In this scenario, cluster-paris is the original primary cluster and cluster-newyork is the original secondary cluster.
A switchover switches the services from cluster-paris to cluster-newyork as follows:
phys-newyork-1# geopg switchover -f -m cluster-newyork srdfpg
While processing the geopg switchover command, the symrdf swap command runs and returns errors for the SRDF device group, devgroup1. As a result, the geopg switchover command returns the following failure message:
Processing operation.... this may take a while .... "Switchover" failed for the following reason: Switchover failed for SRDF DG devgroup1
After this failure message has been issued, the two clusters are in the following states:
cluster-paris: srdfpg role: Secondary cluster-newyork: srdfpg role: Secondary phys-newyork-1# symdg list D E V I C E G R O U P S Number of Name Type Valid Symmetrix ID Devs GKs BCVs VDEVs devgroup1 RDF1 Yes 000187401215 2 0 0 0 devgroup2 RDF2 Yes 000187401215 6 0 0 0