Switching a DS-System from replication to production
In a disaster scenario where 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 new backup data. DS-Clients can be preconfigured with the alternate IP address of the replication DS-System or can be updated with the secondary DS-System connection information automatically. For more information, see
“Sending DS-System IP configuration updates to DS-Clients”.
When using a Recovery License Model (RLM) license, you must change the DS-System license type to FullFeatured to accept new backup data from DS-Clients.
To switch a replication DS-System to a FullFeatured production DS-System:
1. Ensure that the production DS-System IP address can be maintained. If not, ensure that DS-Clients have the replication DS-System's IP address 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.
NOTE: If the DS-License Server does not have enough license capacity available for allocation, you can disable the old production DS-System license on the DS-License Server, which will immediately free its allocated license storage capacity.