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Table 6‑2. Recovery States (Continued)
State Description
Test complete Test completed with or without errors. If a failure occurs
during the test, plan goes to Test Interrupted state.
Test interrupted Server failed while a test was running.
Cleanup in progress After successful cleanup, plan state goes to Ready.
If cleanup is incomplete, state goes to Cleanup Incomplete.
If you set the Force Cleanup option, state goes to Ready
after an error.
If a failure occurs during cleanup, state goes to Cleanup
Incomplete.
Cleanup incomplete Errors occurred during cleanup.
You can run the cleanup again.
When running cleanup from this state, the cleanup wizard
provides an option to ignore errors.
Cleanup interrupted Site Recovery Manager failed during cleanup.
You cannot change recovery options.
Recovery in progress If you cancel recovery, the state goes to Cancel in progress.
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.
For Storage Policy Protection Groups, Recovery steps do
not show virtual machines and consistency groups when a
recovery plan is in this state.
You can verify protected virtual machines in a recovery
plan in the Related Objects tab.
Recovery complete If errors, 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.
For Storage Policy Protection Groups, Recovery steps do
not show virtual machines and consistency groups when a
recovery plan is in this state.
You can verify protected virtual machines in a recovery
plan in the Related Objects tab.
Recovery complete (2) Sites were disconnected during recovery. The connection
status is the only property that triggers this state.
If errors, 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.
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