Forcing a Primary Logical Drive to Change to a Secondary Logical Drive


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Possible loss of data access – When the local becomes a , any that are accessing the through a are not able to read from or write to the logical drive. The other logical drive in the also has a secondary role, so the mirrored data is not accessible by the host on either side.

You might want to use the Force Primary Logical Drive to Change to a Secondary Logical Drive option when you want to perform a and a communication problem between the local site and the remote site is preventing the promotion of the secondary logical drive at the remote site. When the communication problem has been resolved, a occurs. Use the Recovery Guru to recover from this error.

To avoid the Dual Secondary Enhanced Remote Mirroring condition and subsequent recovery steps, wait until the connection between the is operational to perform the role reversal.

To force a primary logical drive to change to a secondary logical drive, click Yes on the Change to Secondary - Error dialog.