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Table Of Contents
- Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Overview of Site Recovery Manager
- System Requirements
- Installing or Updating Site Recovery Manager
- Managing SRM
- Protected Site Configuration
- Recovery Site Configuration
- Failback
- Alerting and Monitoring
- Protected and Recovery Site Changes
- Preinstallation Checklist
- Failback Checklist
- Use the srm-config command to repair an SRM server connection
- Avoiding Replication of Paging Files and Other Transient Data
- Glossary
- Index
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ManagingfailbackusingVMwareSiteRecoveryManager(SRM)isamanualprocess
thatyoucanmanagelikeanyplannedservermigration.WithSRMyoucanfailback
servicesfromarecoverysitetotheprotectedsiteaftertheprotectssiteisreadyto
resumeoperation.
Thischapterincludesthefollowingtopics:
“FailbackScenario”onpage 69
“OtherFailbackConsiderations”onpage 74
Failback Scenario
ThefollowingstepsdescribeascenariousingSRMasafailbacktooltoSiteAafterthese
virtualmachinesarerecoveredatSiteB.Sixmachinescalledapp_vm7through
app_vm12(hostedbyadatastoregroupcalledshared‐san‐2)arefailedbacktoSiteA
fromSiteB.
Figure 7‐1illustrates
thestorageconfigurationafterrunningafailoverfromSiteAto
SiteB.
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NOTEConsultyourarrayvendorʹsdocumentationbeforeattemptingafailback.
Not allarrayssupportthe necessaryoperations.Formoreinformation,seetheVMware
Website.