6.2
Table Of Contents
- System Administration
- Contents
- System Administration
- Updated Information
- Configuring vRealize Automation
- Configuring System Settings
- Configuring IaaS
- The Customer Experience Improvement Program
- Configure the vRealize Automation Appliance Database
- Perform an Appliance Database Failover
- Validate Appliance Database Replication
- Bulk Import, Update, or Migrate Virtual Machines
- Managing vRealize Automation
- Managing Tenants
- Brand Tenant Login Pages
- Install a Hotfix
- Updating vRealize Automation Certificates
- Extracting Certificates and Private Keys
- Update vRealize Automation Certificates when all are Expired
- Updating the Identity Appliance Certificate
- Updating the vRealize Appliance Certificate
- Updating the IaaS Certificate
- Replace the Identity Appliance Management Site Certificate
- Updating the vRealize Appliance Management Site Certificate
- Replace a Management Agent Certificate
- Resolve Certificate Revocation Errors
- View License Usage
- Monitoring Logs and Services
- Starting Up and Shutting Down vRealize Automation
- Customize Data Rollover Settings
- Remove an Identity Appliance from a Domain
- Backup and Recovery for vRealize Automation Installations
- Backing Up vRealize Automation
- Activate the Failover IaaS Server
- vRealize Automation System Recovery
Perform an Appliance Database
Failover 3
If your designated primary Appliance Database fails, implement a failover to the designated replica
database on the secondary appliance to maintain system operation.
Prerequisites
Configure the Appliance Database as applicable for your system configuration. See Chapter 2 Configure
the vRealize Automation Appliance Database.
Procedure
1 If possible, log in to the appliance hosting the primary Appliance Database as root using SSH.
If the appliance or its host machine is not running, skip to step 3.
2 Stop the vpostgres service using the service postgres stop command.
# service postgres stop
Stopping Vmware vPostgres: Last login: Mon Apr 27 19:49:26 UTC 2015 on pts/0
ok
3 Promote the replica database on the secondary appliance to be the primary database.
a Log in the secondary appliance as root using SSH.
b Promote the replica database to master as the postrgres user using
the /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/share/promote_replica_to_primary command.
# su - postgres
/opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/share/promote_replica_to_primary
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