Disabling Protection for Secondary Resources in a Remote Replication Consistency Group

This section describes how to disable protection for secondary resources of all remote replication pairs in a consistency group. After this operation, data can be written to secondary resources.

Prerequisites

Running Status of the remote replication consistency group and Secondary Resource Data Status of remote replication pairs in the consistency group support protection disablement. Table 1 describes in which status protection for secondary resources in a remote replication consistency group can be disabled.

**Table 1** Status requirements for disabling protection for secondary resources in a remote replication consistency group
Running Status of a Remote Replication Consistency Group	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)	Any status	×
To be recovered	Any status	×
Synchronizing	Any status	×
Invalid	Any status	×
√: Supported ×: Not supported

Procedure

Choose Data Protection > Protection Entity > Protection Group > Remote Replication Consistency Group.
Click More on the right of a desired remote replication consistency group and select Disable Protection for Secondary Resource.