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Kevin_Nail
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Feb 03, 2009

GTM and manual failover

In our environment we have several application that are deployed in 2 sites. We use the GTM to load-balance the IPs with Global Availability. My question comes from a need to NOT have automated failov...
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Skuba_85554
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Feb 20, 2009
the way we achieve this is by having our actual primary site configured as the standby within 3dns. you configure your actual standby site as the primary within 3dns. force failover so you're running on what 3dns thinks is your standby site (but it's actually your primary one)

 

 

you can then make use of manual resume to failover to your actual standby site at your own will

 

 

hope that makes sense!