HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring Recover User's Guide (T5437-96008, November 2009)

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When the Manual Intervention Required option is selected on the Failover tab of the
Configure Protection window, a prompt will occur when a failover condition is met. For
more information about setting failover options, see the Failover settings section for your
application.
Exchange failover settings
SQL failover settings
File server failover settings
SharePoint failover settings
BlackBerry failover settings
If you cleared the Manual Intervention Required option and have failover enabled for
your server pair, failover will occur automatically when a failover condition is met.
Initiating manual failover
To initiate a manual failover, select Actions, Failover, or click the Failover button on the
Monitoring tab. The Initiate Failover box will appear.
1. Select either Immediate Failover (to begin failover immediately and not wait for
the queues to empty), or Graceful failover (to wait for the target queue to empty
before failing over).
2. The queues could contain any messages or data recently sent to the target from
the source. If the queues aren't empty when the prompt delay is reached, you will
be asked whether you want to continue waiting, or to failover immediately.
Note:
When failing over a protected File or SharePoint server, the Graceful Failover
option is not available.
To test failover for a protected File server, the source must either be shut down
or disconnected from the network.
3. If you have previously taken snapshots, the Initiate Failover box will include
options for failing over either live data or data previously collected from a snapshot.