Basic failover and recovery concepts
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It might be helpful to understand some of the basic SM-BC failover and recovery concepts.
Planned failover
A manual operation to change the roles of copies in a SM-BC relationship. The primary becomes the secondary and the secondary becomes the primary. ALUA reporting also changes.
Automatic unplanned failover (AUFO)
An automatic operation to perform a failover to the mirror copy. The operation requires assistance from Mediator to detect that the primary copy is unavailable.