HP Insight Recovery 1.0 Online Help (Document Format)

7 Planned Failovers

Overview

A planned failover typically involves an expected outage at the Primary Site. For example, a planned failover

might be necessary to perform scheduled maintenance, or to react to a severe weather forecast. The following

section describes the steps necessary to perform a planned failover using HP Insight Recovery.

Step 1: At the Primary Site

1. A decision is made to move DR Protected logical servers from the current Primary Site to the Recovery

Site.

2. Shut down the applications and operating system on each HP Insight Recovery DR Protected logical

server.

3. Using the HP Insight Recovery | Sites tab, click Change local site to Recovery. A warning message will

appear explaining what changing to a Recovery Site will do:

• The logical server associated with each Recovery Group will be deactivated and disabled.

• The role of the site will be changed from a Primary Site to a Recovery Site.

Clicking Continue initiates the site role conversion, and brings up the Jobs screen allowing you to

monitor the progress of the conversion to a Recovery Site.

Step 2: At the original Recovery Site (to be changed to the new Primary Site)

1. Ensure that enough resources are available to run the Recovery logical servers, i.e. sufficient number

of blades (for Virtual Connect-based logical servers) and/or sufficient capacity on ESX hosts (for Virtual

Machine-based logical servers) that are licensed for HP Insight Recovery.

2. Using the HP Insight Recovery | Sites tab, click Change local site to Primary. A warning message

appears, explaining what changing to a Primary Site will do:

• HP Insight Recovery will prepare the storage replication group for read/write access, and activate

the associated logical servers. The order of failover is determined by the startup order associated

with each Recovery Group.

• The role of the site will be changed from a Recovery Site to a Primary Site.

Clicking Continue initiates the site role conversion, and brings up the Jobs screen allowing you to

monitor the progress of the conversion to a Primary Site.

Notes

• If the operation to change the role of the site (Primary to Recovery or vice versa) fails for any reason,

the site role will not be changed. You must correct the problem (see “Monitoring Jobs”) and redo the

operation.

• Recovery Groups that have Maintenance Mode enabled will not be included in the Change local Site

to Primary operation.