Perform this procedure to take over an individual protection group by the secondary cluster.
Before You Begin
Before you force the secondary cluster to assume the activity of the primary cluster, ensure that the following conditions are met:
The disaster recovery framework is up and running on the secondary cluster.
The secondary cluster is a member of a partnership.
The Configuration status of the protection group is OK on the secondary cluster.
If you are using EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility, ensure that no LUNs in the data replication device group are in the SyncInProg state. Otherwise, the application might fail to start on the new primary cluster due to data inconsistencies.
Perform this procedure from a node in the secondary cluster.
For more information, see Disaster Recovery Framework Rights Profiles in Installing and Configuring the Disaster Recovery Framework for Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.4.
# chmod A+user:username:rwx:allow /var/cluster/geo
The /var/cluster/geo directory must have the correct access control lists (ACL) applied for compatibility between the Geo Management rights profile and the data replication software.
phys-newyork-1# geopg takeover [-f] protection-group-name
Forces the command to perform the operation without your confirmation, even if the primary cluster for a protection group in the multigroup is reachable and the protection group is active on that cluster.
Specifies the name of the protection group.
The following example forces the takeover of the protection group example-pg by the secondary cluster cluster-newyork.
The node phys-newyork-1 is the first node of the secondary cluster. For a reminder of which node is phys-newyork-1, see Example Disaster Recovery Framework Cluster Configuration in Administering the Disaster Recovery Framework for Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.4.
phys-newyork-1# geopg takeover -f example-pg
Next Steps
For information about the state of the primary and secondary clusters after a takeover, see Appendix D, Takeover Postconditions, in Administering the Disaster Recovery Framework for Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.4.
To fail back a protection group to the original cluster, see Recovering a Protection Group to a Cluster.