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1. Introduction
Activating the standby is a simple and straightforward process. This is done during true DR scenarios or for DR testing.
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2. Click Activate to start the activation process. This would ask for further confirmation to activate the standby cluster.
Post activation the configuration status changes to “ IN FAILOVER STATE.”
The original standby server is now changed to ONLINE status, and this server acts as the primary cluster server.
The original primary server status is now ONLINE (Usually in a true DR scenario the status would be offline)
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The configuration status IN FAILOVER STATE. The original standby is the new primary.
The status of the original primary is down.
The configuration is confirmed to be ready for recovery from failover.
Click on “Recover From Failover” to start the process.
After the above process completes, log in on the server and clean up the data directory of the old primary. The option to set up the DR database will appear and click on the“Set up now?” to create the DR cluster on the original primary.
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