If the primary cell is not running properly, to recover the vCloud Director database, you can promote one of the standby cells to become the new primary cell. After that, you must deploy a new standby cell.
Prerequisites
- The primary cell is in the not reachable or failed state.
- The two standby cells are in the running state.
Procedure
What to do next
- Remove the failed primary appliance from both the vCloud Director server group and the repmgr high availability cluster. See Delete a Cloud Cell and Unregister a Failed Primary.
- If necessary, delete the failed primary appliance.