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Perform a planned failover of ASA r2 clusters in a SnapMirror active sync relationship

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SnapMirror active sync offers continuous availability for business-critical applications by creating a copy of your data at a secondary site and enabling your host applications to automatically and transparently fail over in the event of a disaster. You might need to perform a planned failover of your SnapMirror active sync relationship to test the failover process or to perform maintenance on the primary site.

Before you begin

  • The SnapMirror active sync relationship must be in sync.

  • You cannot initiate a planned failover when a nondisruptive operation, such as a storage unit move, is in process.

  • ONTAP Mediator or ONTAP Cloud Mediator must be configured, connected, and in quorum.

Steps

  1. Select Protection > Replication.

  2. Select the SnapMirror active sync relationship you want to fail over.

  3. Select three vertical blue dots; then select Failover.

What’s next

Use the snapmirror failover show command in the ONTAP command line interface (CLI) to monitor the status of the failover.