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 operating 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.

Select 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.

Review details of the imported domain.

2(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.

Configure failback settings.

2(b). VM Settings

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

Configure VM settings.

3. Recovery VA

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

Configure a recovery virtual appliance (RocVA).

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

4. 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.

Review settings then resume continuous rehydration.

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

The continuous rehydration process is resumed.