System information

Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, select Site Recovery > Recovery Plans.
2 Right-click a recovery plan and select Reprotect.
3 Select the check box to confirm that you understand that the reprotect operation is irreversible.
4 (Optional) Select the Force Cleanup check box to ignore errors during the cleanup operation on the
recovery site, and click Next.
The Force Cleanup option is only available after you have performed an initial reprotect operation that
has experienced errors.
5 Review the reprotect information and click Finish.
6 Click Monitor > Recovery Steps tab to monitor the progress of the reprotect operation.
Site Recovery Manager reverses the recovery site and protected sites. Site Recovery Manager creates
placeholder copies of virtual machines from the new protected site at the new recovery site.
Reprotect States
The reprotect process passes through several states that you can observe in the recovery plan in the
Site Recovery Manager plug-in in the vSphere Client.
If reprotect fails, or succeeds partially, you can perform remedial actions to complete the reprotect.
Table 7‑1. Reprotect States
State Description Remedial Action
Reprotect In Progress Site Recovery Manager is
running reprotect.
None
Partial Reprotect Occurs if multiple recovery
plans share the same protection
groups and reprotect succeeds
for some groups in some plans,
but not for others.
Run reprotect again on the partially reprotected
plans.
Incomplete Reprotect Occurs because of failures
during reprotect. For example,
this state might occur because
of a failure to synchronize
storage or a failure to create
placeholder virtual machines.
n
If a reprotect operation fails to synchronize
storage, make sure that sites are connected,
review the reprotect progress in the vSphere
Client , and start the reprotect task again. If
reprotect still won't complete, run the
reprotect task with the Force Cleanup option.
n
If Site Recovery Manager fails to create
placeholder virtual machines, recovery is still
possible. Review the reprotect steps in the
vSphere Client, resolve any open issues, and
start the reprotect task again.
Reprotect Interrupted Occurs if one of the
Site Recovery Manager Servers
stops unexpectedly during the
reprotect process.
Ensure that both Site Recovery Manager Servers
are running and start the reprotect task again.
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