Performing a disaster recovery (failover)

A failover is performed when the protected site becomes fully or partially unavailable. We use a recovery plan that is already created and tested, to perform the failover. Keep in mind that SRM does not auto-determine the occurrence of a disaster at the protected site, hence a recovery is always manually initiated.

Here is how you perform a failover:

  1. Navigate to the vCenter Server's inventory home and click on Site Recovery to bring up Site Recovery Home.
  2. At Site Recovery Home, use the left pane to navigate to Recovery Plans under Inventories.
  3. Select the recovery plan that was created for disaster recovery, navigate to its Monitor | Recovery Steps tab, and click on the icon to bring up the Recovery wizard. ...

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