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PowerScale OneFS 9.8.0.0 Web Administration Guide

Data failover and failback with SyncIQ

SyncIQ enables you to perform automated data failover and failback operations between PowerScale clusters. If your primary cluster goes offline, you can fail over to a secondary PowerScale cluster, enabling clients to continue accessing their data. If the primary cluster becomes operational again, you can fail back to the primary cluster.

For the purposes of SyncIQ failover and failback, the cluster originally accessed by clients is referred to as the primary cluster. The cluster that client data is replicated to is referred to as the secondary cluster.

Failover is the process that allows clients to access, view, modify, and delete data on a secondary cluster. Failback is the process that allows clients to resume their workflow on the primary cluster. During failback, any changes made to data on the secondary cluster are copied back to the primary cluster by means of a replication job using a mirror policy.

Failover and failback can be useful in disaster recovery scenarios. For example, if a primary cluster is damaged by a natural disaster, you can migrate clients to a secondary cluster where they can continue normal operations. When the primary cluster is repaired and back online, you can migrate clients back to operations on the primary cluster.

You can fail over and fail back to facilitate scheduled cluster maintenance, as well. For example, if you are upgrading the primary cluster, you might want to migrate clients to a secondary cluster until the upgrade is complete and then migrate clients back to the primary cluster.

NOTE:Data failover and failback is supported both for enterprise and compliance SmartLock directories. Compliance SmartLock directories adhere to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulation 17a-4(f), which requires securities brokers and dealers to preserve records in a non-rewritable, non-erasable format. SyncIQ properly maintains compliance with the 17a-4(f) regulation during failover and failback.

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