topic Re: Smart redundancy - Promote to Master in ZoneDirector

Smart redundancy - Promote to Master

darren_senadhir — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 12:21:21 GMT

Hi,
Is it possible to setup a secondary Zone Director ZD1200 and promote to the Master ZD?
We would like to move the physical location of the current ZD to a new site.

Thanks

Re: Smart redundancy - Promote to Master

abilash_pr — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 12:25:37 GMT

Hi Darren,

Yes, thats possible, after adding the ZD and syncing the configuration please go ahead and click on failover, in new 10.0 the option has changed.

Regards,
Abilash PR.

Re: Smart redundancy - Promote to Master

karl_lavender — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 19:18:46 GMT

Yeah, per the above comment, the ZD in redundancy should always have an option for manual failover. They swap pretty quick anyways, so you could always pull the primary and everything would come up really quick on the secondary. .

Re: Smart redundancy - Promote to Master

darren_senadhir — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 11:17:58 GMT

Thank you both. We will put this to the test.

Re: Smart redundancy - Promote to Master

darren_senadhir — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:41:11 GMT

Further to my question.

I've got the failover working with our secondary ZD.
Our plan is to relocate what was our Master ZD to a new office. This location will not have any IT staff onsite, so we would like to promote the secondary to Master and create a new failover ZD.

Is this possible?

Re: Smart redundancy - Promote to Master

darren_senadhir — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 07:15:22 GMT

To add, we will be changing the IP of the previous Master ZD.

Re: Smart redundancy - Promote to Master

michael_brado — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:24:01 GMT

Redundant ZDs need < 100ms round trip time to maintain system communications.