Manual failover via command line

I have customers all the time wanting to fail over their 6120's from primary to subordinate or vice versa. To do this its pretty easy. Below is the process

Process to failover

1. Login to the primary 6120 via the UCS cluster IP address.

2. Verify the current primary 6120 in the cluster.

3. Enter local management on the primary via “connect local-mgmt” command.

4. Issue the “cluster lead x” command to make the subordinate switch become the primary. Replace “x” with the correct switch letter.

5. Verify that the role has changed on the previously subordinate switch by SSH’ing into it and issuing the “show cluster state” command. The switch show now show up as the primary.

Happy failover - UCS TECH