Active–passive relationships in AFM DR
AFM DR creates an active–passive relationship between the primary and the secondary clusters.
Features
- Only the primary can write to the secondary fileset. The secondary is read-only for all other users.
- You can take a snapshot of the secondary fileset and use the secondary as a source to create backups or additional copies.
Advantages
The secondary fileset is protected, so no other program or application other than the primary can write to the secondary.
Limitations
- All operations are allowed on the primary fileset, but only snapshot operations are allowed on the secondary fileset.
- The secondary can be converted into the primary even when the primary is writing to the secondary. There is no protection against an administrator doing a failover operation on the secondary, even if the DR relationship is healthy.
- The administrator must ensure that the primary cannot accidentally write to secondary after a failover.