If the Resume Continuous Rehydration on Remote Site option was not configured for the initial failover operation, it can be manually started at the recovery site after VMs have been failed over.

Note: Continuous rehydration of the recovery site is typically configured to protect data and VMs operated at the recovery site back to the original protected site. It is in essence, performing operation as “continuous failback” to the protected site.

  • After VMs have been failed over, go to the Protected Domains tab then click More > Resume Continuous Rehydration.

  • Follow the guided steps of the dialog window to resume continuous rehydration (failback) of the recovery site.
    1. General
      • Review the information about the protected domain.
      • If the information is correct, click the Next button.

    1. (a) Failback Settings
      • Make selections from the drop-down menus to specify the recovery site datacenter, cluster, resource pool (if any), and datastore.
      • Click the Next button.

    1. (b) VM Settings
      • Map a Recovery VM Network to the Protected VM Network.
      • Specify a storage policy for VMs (optional).
      • Click the Next button.

    1. Recovery VA
      • Make selections from the drop-down menus to specify: Replication Network to Object Store, Host to DRVA Data Network, and Management Network.
      • Click the Next button.

Note: Refer to Chapter 10 for additional information about RocVA.

    1. Summary
      • Review all entered settings on the Summary step. 
      • Use the Back button to modify any settings that need to be changed.
      • Click the Resume Continuous Rehydration button.

  • Continuous rehydration at the protected site now begins to protect VMs of the recovery site.