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Group Administration Data recovery
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Promoting an inbound replica set does not require any additional space on the secondary group, because it reduces
delegated space by the size of the volume’s replica reserve.
With some exceptions, all volume operations
apply to a recovery volume. See Recovery volume restrictions.
Restriction: Yo
u cannot convert a recovery template to a standard volume. You must first You must first make the
promotion permanent. You cannot detach a recovery thin clone.
1. Click
Replication, then expand the replication partner, then expand Inbound Replicas, then select the
replica set, and then click
Promote to volume.
2. Confirm that you want to pause inbound replication from th
e partner. Replication resumes automatically for all
other volumes after the replica set is promoted.
3. In the Promote Replica Set – Volume Options dialog box, specify
the following:
• Whether you want to set the recovery volume online or offl
ine. Set the volume online if you want initiators
to connect to it.
• Whether you want to retain the iSCSI targ
et name of the original volume.
• Whether you want to keep the ability to demote
to replica set. Unless you are permanently promoting the
replica set, make sure you keep this ability.
Then, click
Next.
4. In the Promote Replica Set – iSCSI A
ccess, specify the following:
• Conditions that a computer must match to connect to the recovery volume. Specify a CHAP user name, IP
address, or iSCSI initiator name. See About iSCSI target access controls on pa
ge 8-1.
• Recovery volume permission, either read-only or read-write.
• Whether to allow initiators with different iSCSI qualified names (IQNs) access to the recovery volume.
See Multi-host access t
o targets on page 8
-6.
Then, click
Next.
5. In the Promote Replica Set – Summary dialog box, review the
information and click Finish if satisfactory.
Click
Back to make changes.
After the promote operation completes, the replica set disappears from
the list of inbound replica sets, and the
recovery volume appears in the list of volumes.
Where to go next
• Connect to the recovery volume. See Connecting initiators to iSCSI targets on page 8-7.
• Go to the next step in the failover and failback process
when the original volume on the primary group
becomes available. See Replicating a recovery volume to th
e primary group on page 13-9.
• To reverse the inbound replica set promotion and cancel the failover,
demote the recovery volume to an
inbound replica set:
Click
Volumes, then expand Volumes, then select the recovery volume name, and then click Demote to
replica set
.