Failover groups provide access to Auto Recovery operations for a group of virtual machines (VMs), based on replication to a destination site (secondary site).
Supported Recovery Targets
You can perform the following operations for the supported recovery targets.
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Amazon |
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Azure |
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Azure Stack |
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Google Cloud Platform |
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Hyper-V |
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure |
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VMware |
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Operations
You can perform the following operations for failover groups:
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Failback: Switch back to the primary site after a failover.
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Planned failover: Switch to a DR site for maintenance of the primary site.
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Point-in-time failover: Select a point-in-time recovery point to use for a failover operation. You can perform this operation only on the Replication Monitor.
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Reverse replication: Replicate updates from a VM running on a secondary site to the primary site. You can perform this operation only on the Replication Monitor.
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Test boot: Validate replicated VMs.
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Test failover: Validate a group of VMs.
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Undo failover: Discard changes from the secondary site and make the original source VM active. You can perform this operation only on the Replication Monitor.
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Undo test failover: Discard changes from the secondary site.
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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.
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View test failover VMs: View the test failover DR sites.
Considerations
Review the following considerations before performing any failover group operations:
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For replicated VMs using source snapshots, failback operations are supported only when replication is configured in the Command Center.
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For Oracle Cloud Infrastructure destination sites, use Undo failover instead of Failback.
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To perform failover, test boot, and failback operations for VMware destination sites, VMware tools must be installed on the source VMs before replicating the VMs.
Related Topics
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To perform an Undo failover operation for an array replication failover group, see Undoing a Failover.