{"id":2265,"date":"2023-02-27T13:05:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T21:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=2265"},"modified":"2025-07-31T09:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:10:30","slug":"what-is-continuous-failover-cfo","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/jetstream-knowledge-base\/what-is-continuous-failover-cfo\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is: Continuous Failover (CFO)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">Continuous failover is a mode of operation where the protected and recovery sites remain synchronized during normal operation to minimize the amount of\u00a0time necessary to complete DR recovery. Data is continually synchronized between the protected and recovery sites as soon as continuous failover is established. VM operations are unaffected at the secure site. Data from the object store is rehydrated to the recovery site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">When a CFO starts, the tasks listed below will be initiated automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"446\" height=\"342\" src=\"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-13.png 446w, https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-13-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-13-50x38.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-alert wp-block-ht-blocks-messages wp-block-hb-message wp-block-hb-message--withicon\">When CFO is used, one <a href=\"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/jetstream-knowledge-base\/rvm-rocva-and-test-vm\/#recovery-from-object-cloud-virtual-appliance-rocva\">RocVA<\/a> will be created for each protected domain and one <a href=\"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/jetstream-knowledge-base\/rvm-rocva-and-test-vm\/#representation-vm-rvm\">RVM<\/a> will be created for each protected VM. These transient VMs will be created temporarily to help with the rehydration of the VMs and their data from the object store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/online-docs\/jsdr-admin\/failovertorecoverysite.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn more about JetStream DR failover.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuous failover is a mode of operation where the protected and recovery sites remain synchronized during normal operation to minimize the amount of\u00a0time necessary to complete DR recovery. Data is continually synchronized between the protected and recovery sites as soon as continuous failover is established. VM operations are unaffected at the secure site. Data from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[234],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-2265","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-glossary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6897,"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2265\/revisions\/6897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetstreamsoft.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}