Suspended mode temporarily disables the ability of the primary companion to fail over to the secondary companion. To switch from normal companion mode to suspended mode:
Stop the high availability subsystem from monitoring the primary and secondary companion as resources. As root, issue:
scswitch -n -M -j primary-resource-name scswitch -n -M -j secondary-resource-name
Suspend normal companion mode. From the secondary companion, issue:
sp_companion companion_name, suspend