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Can Unplanned Failover Be Executed Without a Witness in Prism Central-Based DR Setup?

  • October 30, 2024
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Hello Community,

 

I'm exploring options for executing an Unplanned Failover in a Prism Central-based Disaster Recovery setup and would appreciate some insights. Our environment consists of two sites, each configured with its own Prism Central instance in an AZ-to-AZ architecture.

 

Is it possible to successfully perform an Unplanned Failover without a Witness in this setup? If anyone has experience or best practices to share for handling failovers under these conditions, I’d be grateful for your advice!

 

Thanks in advance!

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JeroenTielen
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  • October 30, 2024

Of course you can, but you need to do it manually. Create a recovery plan and set it to manually. 

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  • Duong Quoc
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  • Voyager
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  • October 30, 2024

Hi Jeroen,

So, just to confirm my understanding: in a disaster event, the Recovery Site won’t automatically promote itself to the primary, and we would need to manually initiate the failover process. Is that correct?

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