DR Orchestration and Failover Groups

Failover groups provide orchestration of disaster recovery (DR) operations for a group of virtual machines (VMs), based on Live Sync replication to a DR site (also called destination site or secondary site).

Failover groups apply for destination sites using Amazon, Azure, Hyper-V, or VMware hypervisors.

You can use failover operations for the following scenarios:

• Failback: Switch back to the primary site after a failover.

  Note

  For replicated VMs using source snapshots, failback operations are supported only when replication is configured in the Command Center.

• Planned failover: Switch to a DR site for maintenance of the primary site.

• Point-in-time failover: (only for VMware destination sites) Select a point-in-time recovery point to use for a failover operation.

  Perform this operation from the Replication Monitor.

• Reverse replication: (only for VMware destination sites) Replicate updates from a VM running on a secondary site to the primary site.

  Perform this operation from the Replication Monitor.

• Test boot: (only for Hyper-V and VMware destination sites) Validate replicated VMs.

• Test failover: (only for VMware destination sites) Validate a group of VMs.

• Undo failover: (only for VMware destination sites) Discard changes from the secondary site and make the original source VM active.

  Perform this operation from the Replication Monitor.

• Unplanned failover: Make the DR site active in an emergency. After a failover, you can perform a failback operation to return operations to the primary site.