Disabling Protection for Secondary Resources

When the remote device needs to take over services, disable protection for secondary resources to make resources readable and writable. Therefore, write data services can be provided for upper-layer services. At this time, roles of the primary and secondary directories in a remote replication pair stay unchanged but primary resources cannot synchronize data to secondary resources.

Prerequisites

The remote replication pair for which you want to disable secondary resource protection has not been added to a consistency group.
Running Status and Secondary Resource Data Status of the remote replication pair support protection disablement. Table 1 shows in which status secondary resource protection can be disabled for a remote replication pair.

**Table 1** Status requirements for disabling protection for secondary resources in a remote replication pair
Running Status of a Remote Replication Pair	Secondary Resource Data Status	Protection Disablement Supported or Not
Normal	Any status	×
Split	Consistent	√
Interrupted (link down)	Consistent	√ (can be performed only on the secondary storage system.)
Interrupted (link up)	Consistent	√ (can be performed on the primary or secondary storage system.)
To be recovered	Any status	×
Synchronizing	Any status	×
Invalid	Any status	×
√: Supported ×: Not supported

Procedure

Choose Data Protection > Protection Entity > Volume > Remote Replication Pair.
Click More on the right of the desired remote replication pair and select Disable Protection for Secondary Resource.