Failover Operations

Failover is the process of bringing up mission-critical and business-critical applications from a primary site to a DR site when the primary system fails due to a disaster. When you initiate a failover, SiteContinuity migrates applications from the primary site to the DR site. You can choose a specific snapshot for VADP backups or point-in-time recovery for Continuous Data Protection backups for the failover. Once migrated, SiteContinuity brings the VM online and to a fully operational state.

Before you begin

To perform a Test Failover or Failover, you must have an active DR plan that is fully defined, including all DR components, DR applications, and Resource Profiles. For more information, see Create a DR Plan.