The DNS alias points to the virtual clustered server name. Our DR server is also clustered, has its own virtual name. The DR databases are kept in sync with log shipping - we're reverse shipping at the moment. This is my 3rd reply post, but I'm not seeing my previous entries for some reason.

I probably should've been less verbose on my initial post, without all the background info. The only issue is pausing SQL Server on the cluster, which after testing today on other clusters, seems to work OK.

Thanks.