Promoting and demoting resources

Manually switching a resource's role from secondary to primary (promotion) or vice versa (demotion) is done using the following commands:

drbdadm primary resource
drbdadm secondary resource

In single-primary mode (DRBD's default), any resource can be in the primary role on only one node at any given time while the connection state is Connected. Thus, issuing drbdadm primary resource on one node while resource is still in the primary role on the peer will result in an error.

A resource configured to allow dual-primary mode can be switched to the primary role on both nodes.