Preparing the existing DR environment

Last published : Aug 05, 2026
If you plan to add a failover node to the secondary site, you must temporarily switch the roles of the Primary and Secondary sites so that the current site becomes the Primary. This action reverses the direction of replication.
To prepare the existing DR environment
  1. If you are adding the failover node to the cluster at the primary site, proceed directly to step 2.
If you are adding a failover node to the secondary site, you must switch the roles of the primary and secondary sites. This action reverses the direction of replication.
  • In the Service Groups tab of the Cluster Explorer configuration tree, right-click the service group that is online at the current primary site.
  • Click Switch To, and click** Remote switch**.
  • In the Switch global group dialog box, click the cluster at the secondary site you want to switch the group to. Then click the specific system where you want to bring the global application service group online. Click OK.
  1. Take the global application service group offline at the current primary site.
  2. Take the Volume Replicator replication service group offline.