System information

Table 4‑2. Recovery States (Continued)
State Description
Disaster recovery complete During recovery at the protected site, VM shutdown
enountered errors, possibly because the sites were not
connected, the step before split brain.
System prompt warns of split brain and to run recovery
again when sites reconnect.
When sites are connected, state goes to Recovery Required
(split brain)
Recovery started A recovery started on the peer site, but if the sites are not
connected, the exact state is unknown.
Log in to the recovery site or reconnect the sites to get the
current state.
Recovery required (split brain) Sites were disconnected during recovery. Split brain
scenario detected when sites reconnect.
System prompts you to run recovery again to synchronize
the sites.
Recovery complete VMs are all recovered but with errors. Running recovery
again does not fix the errors.
Plan goes to this state after the split brain recovery is
resolved.
You can see the recover steps of the last recovery run.
Incomplete recovery Canceled recovery or datastore error. Run recovery again.
You need to either resolve errors and rerun recovery, or
remove protection for VMs in error. The plan detects the
resolution of errors in either of these ways and updates
state to Recovery Complete.
Partial recovery Some but not all protection groups are recovered by an
overlapping plan.
Recovery interrupted A failure during recovery causes the recovery to pause.
Click Recovery to continue. You cannot change recovery
options.
Cancel in progress Canceling a test results in Test Complete with last result
canceled.
Canceling a recovery results in Incomplete Recovery with
last result canceled.
Reprotect in progress If the server fails during this state, it goes to Reprotect
Interrupted .
Partial reprotect Overlapping plan was reprotected.
The already reprotected groups go to Ready state, but this
is valid, since the other groups are in the Recovered state.
Incomplete reprotect Reprotect did not complete the storage operations. Sites
must be connected for the reportect to succeed on the new
run.
Reprotect interrupted If the Site Recovery Manager Server fails during reprotect,
run reprotect again to continue and properly clean up the
state.
Waiting for user input during test Test is paused. Dismiss the prompt to resume the test.
Waiting for user input during recovery Recovery is paused. Dismiss the prompt to resume
recovery.
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