{"id":3571,"date":"2023-12-28T16:43:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T00:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=3571"},"modified":"2026-10-15T20:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:00:44","slug":"failover-unable-to-take-ownership","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/jetstream-knowledge-base\/failover-unable-to-take-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Unable to Take Ownership of Protected Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-info wp-block-ht-blocks-messages wp-block-hb-message wp-block-hb-message--withicon\">This article applies to all product versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Problem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em>\u201cregular&#8221; failover<\/em> or <em>restore<\/em> task fails and displays the error <em>\u201cUnable to become a Protected Domain owner due to remote activity. Verify that the old DR Virtual Appliance is not accessing the Protected Domain on the Object Store.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cause\/Resolution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Failover task on a Protected Domain fails<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The &#8220;regular&#8221; failover method should only be performed after a <em>complete disaster<\/em> has occurred on the primary site and the primary site is no longer functional. If the primary site is still up and running when failover is triggered, ownership transfer of the protected domain will be blocked and an error will be triggered. This is because a heartbeat signal continues to emanate from the primary site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"966\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/failover-task-error.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7262\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/failover-task-error.png 966w, https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/failover-task-error-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/failover-task-error-768x343.png 768w, https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/failover-task-error-50x22.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 966px) 100vw, 966px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Failover blocked due to Domain ownership issue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-info wp-block-ht-blocks-messages wp-block-hb-message wp-block-hb-message--withicon\">If the primary site is still operational, use the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/online-docs\/jsdr-admin\/Post-FailoverOptions.html#Planned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planned failover<\/a><\/em><\/strong> option to move the files to the recovery site gracefully. To test the operation and integrity of failover for the purpose of DR, use the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/online-docs\/jsdr-admin\/TestFailover.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">test failover<\/a><\/em><\/strong> function.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/online-docs\/jsdr-admin\/Post-FailoverOptions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Regular&#8221; and &#8220;forced&#8221; post-failover options<\/a> are available to control the state of the protected site and ownership of VMs and data after failover has been completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Restore task on a Protected Domain fails<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before attempting to restore a Protected Domain to a remote recovery site, ensure that the original DR Virtual Appliance (DRVA) at the primary site is inaccessible or powered off. The heartbeat signal from the primary site will be stopped and ownership of the Domain can then be transferred to the recovery site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"165\" src=\"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/restore-blocked-1024x165.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/restore-blocked-1024x165.png 1024w, https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/restore-blocked-300x48.png 300w, https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/restore-blocked-768x124.png 768w, https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/restore-blocked-50x8.png 50w, https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/restore-blocked.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"97\" src=\"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/restore-remote-activity.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/restore-remote-activity.png 1000w, https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/restore-remote-activity-300x29.png 300w, https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/restore-remote-activity-768x74.png 768w, https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/restore-remote-activity-50x5.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Restore blocked due to Domain ownership issue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-alert wp-block-ht-blocks-messages wp-block-hb-message wp-block-hb-message--withicon\">If the primary site DRVA is still running or can access the Protected Domain on the object store, the restore task will fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem The \u201cregular&#8221; failover or restore task fails and displays the error \u201cUnable to become a Protected Domain owner due to remote activity. Verify that the old DR Virtual Appliance is not accessing the Protected Domain on the Object Store.\u201d Cause\/Resolution Failover task on a Protected Domain fails The &#8220;regular&#8221; failover method should only be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[92],"ht-kb-tag":[224],"class_list":["post-3571","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-troubleshooting","ht_kb_tag-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7274,"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3571\/revisions\/7274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}