Disabling Protection for a Secondary Resource

When the secondary resource of a remote replication pair needs to take over services in case of a fault, disable protection for the secondary resource to make the secondary resource readable and writable. At this time, roles of the primary and secondary resources in the remote replication pair stay unchanged but the primary resource cannot synchronize data to the secondary resource.

Prerequisites

Running Status and Secondary Resource Data Status of the remote replication pair support protection disablement. Table 1 describes 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	√
To be recovered	Any status	×
Synchronizing	Any status	×
Invalid	Any status	×
√: Supported ×: Not supported

Procedure

Choose Data Protection > Protection Entity > Dtree > Remote Replication Pair.
Select a desired account from the Account drop-down list in the upper left corner.
Select one or more desired remote replication pairs and choose Secondary Resource Protection > Disable.

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