Which command-line command is used to promote a secondary Vault Enterprise cluster to primary?

vault write sys/replication/promote

A Vault Enterprise environment has a primary in us-east-1 and a secondary in us-west-2. The us-east-1 primary is experiencing a regional outage. The team promotes the secondary to primary. After the outage, the us-east-1 cluster comes back online. The team wants to fail back to us-east-1 as the primary. What is the correct sequence of actions?

Demote the us-east-1 cluster to secondary and keep us-west-2 as primary

Demote the current primary (us-west-2) to secondary, then promote the us-east-1 cluster to primary

Restart the us-east-1 cluster and promote it to primary

Promote the us-east-1 cluster to primary directly

A secondary Vault Enterprise cluster is being promoted to primary. The administrator wants to ensure the promotion will succeed. Which condition must be true?

The primary cluster is reachable

The secondary cluster has a valid Enterprise license

The secondary cluster is in a 'sealed' state

What is a key consideration when promoting a secondary cluster to primary in a failover scenario?

Promotion is irreversible and you cannot return to the original primary.

The original primary will be automatically sealed and cannot be reused.

The original primary may become a secondary after promotion, and you may need to re-establish replication if you want to fail back.

All clients must be reconfigured with new tokens after promotion.

After promoting a secondary cluster to primary, which command or API call is used to verify that the cluster is now the primary?

vault read sys/replication/status

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A Vault Enterprise environment has a primary in us-east-1 and a secondary in us-west-2. The us-east-1 primary is experiencing a regional outage. The team promotes the secondary to primary. After the outage, the us-east-1 cluster comes back online. The team wants to fail back to us-east-1 as the primary. What is the correct sequence of actions?
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A secondary Vault Enterprise cluster is being promoted to primary. The administrator wants to ensure the promotion will succeed. Which condition must be true?
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14foundation · easy
What is a key consideration when promoting a secondary cluster to primary in a failover scenario?
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After promoting a secondary cluster to primary, which command or API call is used to verify that the cluster is now the primary?
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