Enabling Protection for Secondary Resources

After secondary resource protection is enabled, the secondary namespace no longer receives read and write requests from hosts and only receives remote replication requests from the primary namespace.

Prerequisites

Running Status and Secondary Resource Data Status of the remote replication pair support protection enablement. Table 1 shows in which status protection for secondary resources in a remote replication pair can be enabled.

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

Procedure

Choose Data Protection > Protection Entity > Namespace > Remote Replication Pair.
Select the desired account from the Account drop-down list in the upper left corner.
Select the remote replication pair for which you want enable secondary resource protection and choose Secondary Resource Protection > Enable.

You can also click More on the right of the desired remote replication pair and select Enable Protection for Secondary Resource.