Moving resource groups with dependencies

PowerHA® SystemMirror® prevents you from moving resource groups online or to another node under certain conditions

These conditions include:

  • If you took the parent resource groups offline with the Resource Group Management utility, clRGmove, PowerHA SystemMirror rejects manual attempts to bring the resource groups that depend on these resource groups online. The error message lists the parent resource groups that you must activate first to satisfy the resource group dependency.
  • If you took the target resource groups offline with the Resource Group Management utility, clRGmove, PowerHA SystemMirror rejects manual attempts to bring the resource groups that depend on these resource groups online. The error message lists the target resource groups that you must activate first to satisfy the resource group dependency.
  • If you have a parent and a child resource group online, and want to move the parent resource group to another node or take it offline, PowerHA SystemMirror prevents you from doing so before a child resource group is taken offline. However, if both parent and child are in the same Same Node or Same Site location dependency set, you can move them both as you move the whole set.
  • If you have a source and a target resource group online (with stopafter dependency), and want to move the stopafter-source resource group to another node or take it offline, PowerHA SystemMirror prevents you from doing so before a stopafter-target resource group is taken offline. However, if both source and target are in the same Same Node or Same Site location dependency set, you can move them both as you move the whole set.
  • You can move Same Node dependency or Same Site dependency sets of resource groups. You must specify that all groups are moved in the same operation.
  • The rules for location dependencies may not allow all combinations of resource groups moves. You need to consider your needs for manual control of resource groups when configuring dependencies.