Demoting an ActiveDR pod with AVS can be part of two scenarios:
- Cleanup test recovery: demoting a target pod.
- Recovery or failover: demoting a source pod.
Both scenarios require preparing the VMware environment involves shutting down and unregistering virtual machines, then removing the datastores. For removing steps, check the Remove a Restored ActiveDR Pod with AVS.
Another requirement prior to demotion is to verify if there is still active I/O going to the pod. If so, examine the workloads and stop them. If they should/cannot be stopped, move the workload to a volume not in the target pod.
The simplest way to ensure the pod is not actively serving I/O is to check the performance statistics.
Navigate to Analysis -> Performance -> Pods, then select the pod.
The promotion can be performed on the Everpure Cloud Dedicated UI or from within the
Cloud Manager OVA or any machine has PureStoragePowerShellSDK2 installed on it and can connect and authenticate
to Everpure Cloud Dedicated.