# Failover Groups

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.

Recovery target | Supported operations
--- | ---
Amazon | Failback Planned failover Test failover Unplanned failover Undo failover View test failover VMs
Azure | Failback Planned failover Unplanned failover Test failover Undo failover View test failover VMs
Azure Stack | Failback Planned failover Unplanned failover Test failover View test failover VMs
Google Cloud | Failback Planned failover Unplanned failover Test failover View test failover VMs
Hyper-V | Failback Planned failover Test boot Undo failover Unplanned failover
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Failback Planned failover Undo failover Unplanned failover
VMware | Failback Planned failover Point-in-time failover Reverse replication Test boot Test failover Undo failover Undo test failover (array replication only) Unplanned failover View test failover VMs
VMware Cloud Director | Planned failover Unplanned failover Failback Point-in-time failover Test failover

## Operations

You can perform the following operations for failover groups:

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

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

- 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.

- 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.

- Test boot: Validate replicated VMs.

- Test failover: Validate a group of VMs.

- 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.

- Undo test failover: Discard changes from the secondary site.

- 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.

- View test failover VMs: View the test failover DR sites.

## Considerations

Review the following considerations before performing any failover group operations:

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

- For Oracle Cloud Infrastructure destination sites, use Undo failover instead of Failback.

- 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

- Monitoring Replication

- Auto Recovery Orchestration for NetApp Open Replication

- To perform an Undo failover operation for an array replication failover group, see Undoing a Failover.

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