When synchronous mirroring is used, one node is treated as the active (source) and the other as the passive (destination). The natural consequence is that data can be accessed only on the active node. The passive node is “locked” and cannot be used until it is switched to active.
There is a way to bypass these limitations – by creating a snapshot on the destination node and accessing the data via the snapshot. However, this is only a partial solution, as the data on the snapshot is read-only.
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