Replica Failover and Failback

Sometimes businesses may require a substitute of the Virtual Machine that is being used for their business-critical function in times of disaster. In such cases, they will want to avoid downtime and have the VM in a ready-to-use format so that their business keeps functioning. For the above-mentioned scenario, Replication combined with Failover and FailBack is the process that meets their requirement.

The section below will guide you through the various restoration scenarios available in the VMware Replication process. There are four restore types which are:

• Failover
• Finalize Failover
• Finalize Failback
• File Level Recovery