Administrator Guide

1. The primary Storage Center fails.
Figure 49. Step One
2. The secondary Storage Center cannot communicate with the primary Storage Center.
3. The secondary Storage Center communicates with the tiebreaker and receives permission to activate the secondary Live Volume.
4. The secondary Storage Center activates the secondary Live Volume.
Figure 50. Step Four
NOTE: When the primary Storage Center recovers, Storage Center prevents the Live Volume from coming online.
Automatic Restore of a Live Volume
Enabling Automatic Restore repairs the Live Volume relationship between the primary and secondary Live Volumes after recovering from a
failure. After an automatic restore, the original secondary Live Volume remains as the primary Live Volume. The following steps occur
during an automatic repair of a Live Volume.
NOTE: The Live Volume will automatically restore only if the failover was automatically activated.
496 Storage Center Replications and Live Volumes