A pop-up dialog window appears with guided steps to configure and start failover:

Note: The configuration steps are the same for both Failover and Continuous Failover modes; however, steps to complete failover are unique for each failover mode.

Step: General

    • Review information about the imported Domain to be failed over.
    • If the information is correct, click the Next button.

Figure 206: Review details of the imported Domain.

Step: Failover Settings

    • Make selections from the drop-down menus to specify recovery settings of the recovery site, including: Datacenter, Cluster, Resource Pool, VM Folder, and Datastore.
    • Specify a failover type (post-failover state). Different sub-options may appear depending upon your selection:
    • Indicate if PITR (Point-In-Time Recovery) should automatically be launched after the VMs have been failed over.
    • Click the Next button.

Figure 207: Configure failover settings.

Step: VM Settings

    • Map a Recovery VM Network to the Protected VM Network.
    • Specify a storage policy for VMs (optional)
    • If necessary, supply VM guest credentials for network configuration.

Figure 208: Configure VM settings.

      • VM guest credentials are specified in a pop-up dialog window.
        • Click the Save button when done.

Figure 209: Configure VM guest credentials.

    • Click the Next button on the main screen to move to the next configuration step.

Step: Recovery VA

    • Specify network settings for the Management Network, Host (IOFilter)/RocVA to DRVA Network, and Recovery Network to Object Store.
      • DHCP will be used by default.
      • Static IP addresses can be manually assigned by de-selecting the Apply same network settings to all checkbox then selecting a network's Static IP checkbox and clicking its Configure button.
        • A mix of static and dynamic IP addresses can be used.
    • Specify a default Gateway Network.
    • Click the Next button.

Figure 210: Configure a Recovery Virtual Appliance (RocVA).

Note: Learn more about Recovery Virtual Appliances (RocVA).

Step: DR Settings

    • Select the DRVA and Replication Log Storage from the drop-down menus.
    • Specify a Replication Log Size. (Note: Metatdata Size is not directly editable. It is derived from the Total estimated data size to be protected specified when the Protected Domain was configured – it can also be adjusted from the General step, above.)
    • Click the Next button.

Figure 211: Specify DRVA and replication log details.

Note: The replication log and metadata will be allocated from the selected replication log storage.

Step: Summary

    • Review all entered settings on the Summary step. 
    • Use the Back button to modify any settings that need to be changed.
    • Click the Failover button to initiate the failover process.

Figure 212: Review settings then start the failover process.

Note: The label of the failover button will indicate the failover mode being used (e.g., “Failover” or “Continuous Failover”).

    • The failover process will begin and the mode of the Domain will change to "Failover in Progress."
      • Details of each task step can be viewed by clicking the blue "info" icon of the Current Step section.

Figure 213: The failover process has begun.

Note: Failover is run as needed and is used to perform the entire process to recover Protected Domains to a recovery site. Continuous Failover mode should be configured and initiated prior to a disaster event. When a disaster occurs, "near-zero RTO" recovery can be performed by "completing" the failover process.

Also see:

Post-Failover Options

Failover Complete