DS-System Help : Using premium backup and recovery services : DS-System Replication : Switching from replication to production
 
Switching from replication to production
In a disaster recovery scenario when you lose your production DS-System, you can switch the replication DS-System to a production DS-System so your DS-Clients can continue to backup and restore data without interruption.
When using a Capacity License Management (CLM) license, if the secondary sites are running replication DS-Systems, you must obtain an emergency software license for the production license ID to enable the replication DS-Systems to accept backup data from DS-Clients.
When using a Recovery License Model (RLM) license, you must change the DS-System license type to FullFeatured to accept backup data from DS-Clients.
You can preconfigure the DS-Clients with the alternate IP address of the replication DS-System or update the DS-Clients with the secondary DS-System connection information automatically. For more information, see “Sending DS-System IP configuration updates to DS-Clients”.
To switch from a replication to production DS-System:
1. Ensure the production DS-System IP address can be maintained. If not, ensure the DS-Clients have the IP address of the replication DS-System configured as a secondary DS-System connection.
2. On the DS-License Server, change the DS-System type from Replication to FullFeatured and allocate the same license capacities. For more information, see the DS-License Server User Guide.
If the DS-License Server does not have enough license capacity available for allocation, you can disable the old production DS-System license, which will immediately free its allocated license storage capacity.