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Reprotect Virtual Machines
Reprotect results in the reconfiguration of Site Recovery Manager protection groups and recovery plans to
work in the opposite direction. After a reprotect operation, you can recover virtual machines back to the
original site using a planned migration workflow.
Prerequisites
See “Preconditions for Performing Reprotect,” on page 114.
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 Select the recovery plan and click Monitor > Recovery Steps tab to monitor the progress of the
reprotect operation.
7 When the reprotect operation finishes, select the recovery plan, click Monitor > History, and click the
Export report for selected history item button.
The recovery plan can return to the ready state even if errors occurred during the reprotect operation.
Check the history report for the reprotect operation to make sure that no errors occurred. If errors did
occur during reprotect, attempt to fix the errors and run a test recovery to make sure that the errors are
fixed. If you do not fix errors that occurred during reprotect and you subsequently attempt to run
planned migration or disaster recovery without fixing them, some virtual machines might fail to
recover.
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 Web Client.
If reprotect fails, or succeeds partially, you can perform remedial actions to complete the reprotect.
Table 9‑1. 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.
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