System information

Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, select Site Recovery > Recovery Plans, and select a recovery plan.
2 Right-click the recovery plan and select Cleanup. You can also run cleanup from the Recovery Steps
tab.
3 Review the cleanup information and click Next.
4 Click Finish.
5 After the cleanup finishes, if it reports errors, run the cleanup again, selecting the Force Cleanup
option.
The Force Cleanup option forces the removal of virtual machines, ignoring any errors, and returns the
plan to the Ready state. If necessary, run cleanup several times with the Force Cleanup option, until the
cleanup succeeds.
Run a Recovery Plan
When you run a recovery plan, Site Recovery Manager migrates all virtual machines in the recovery plan to
the recovery site. Site Recovery Manager attempts to shut down the corresponding virtual machines on the
protected site.
CAUTION A recovery plan makes significant alterations in the configurations of the protected and recovery
sites and it stops replication. Do not run any recovery plan that you have not tested. Reversing these
changes might cost significant time and effort and can result in prolonged service downtime.
Prerequisites
To use forced recovery, you must first enable this function. You enable forced recovery by enabling the
recovery.forceRecovery setting as described in “Change Recovery Settings,” on page 105.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, select Site Recovery > Recovery Plans, and select a recovery plan.
2 Right-click the recovery plan and select Run.
3 Review the information in the confirmation prompt, and select I understand that this process will
permanently alter the virtual machines and infrastructure of both the protected and recovery
datacenters.
4 Select the type of recovery to run.
Option Description
Planned Migration
Recovers virtual machines to the recovery site when both sites are running.
If errors occur on the protected site during a planned migration, the
planned migration operation fails.
Disaster Recovery
Recovers virtual machines to the recovery site if the protected site
experiences a problem. If errors occur on the protected site during a
disaster recovery, the disaster recovery continues and does not fail.
5 (Optional) Select the Forced Recovery - recovery site operations only check box.
This option is available if you enabled the forced recovery function and you selected Disaster Recovery.
6 Click Next.
7 Review the recovery information and click Finish.
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