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Dell PowerMax File Replication Guide

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Planned Failover with Auto Start

While managing multiple replication sessions, to achieve load balancing, the user might want to reverse the direction of replication. Planned failover of a replication session will help one achieve this by reversing the direction of replication on the source and the destination NAS server. The original source NAS server will be changed to destination mode and the original destination NAS server will be changed to production mode. Planned failover with auto-start will switch the source and destination of the replication session and start the replication in reverse mode. As start replication is also invoked, the session will initially be in “SyncInProg” state but eventually move to synchronized (synchronous replication) or consistent state (asynchronous replication).
NOTE This operation needs to be performed on the source side.

Follow the below steps to reverse the direction of the Replication Session:

  1. Select Data Protection.
  2. Select File Protection.
  3. Click REPLICATION tab.
  4. Click REPLICATION SESSION tab.
  5. Select the checkbox against the name of the replication session you want to perform a planned failover with Auto Start.
  6. Click Planned Failover. The Planned Failover Replication Session dialogue box opens.
  7. Select the checkbox 'Automatically start the NAS Server Replication on the destination system'.
  8. Click Run In The Background to proceed with the Planned Failover.
  9. Go to the job list in the UI and click on view all jobs.
  10. Click on the hyperlink beside the planned failover without auto-start job to track the status.

This operation now performs a Planned Failover with Auto Start.

Figure 1. Select Replication Session
Figure 2. Planned Failover Replication Session dialogue box
Figure 3. Job Details
Figure 4. Tasks

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