12. Running the LIVE Failover

Running the LIVE Failover

 

Navigate to your EDRM server Web UI and select the job that you created in the previous step. Right-click on the job and the menu will pop up, choose the Run Live Failover option

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A warning message will pop up. When you confirm that you want to run the LIVE Failover process by clicking on the Yes button, the LIVE Failover process starts immediately and cannot be canceled.

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LIVE Failover process is started, wait until Collection, Failover, and Test steps are finished.

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LIVE Failover process is finished, all VMs will start on the DR site and the cleanup step will not be performed.

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By checking inside VMware vCenter we can confirm that NFS volume is mounted and VMs defined inside the EDR job are registered and powered on.

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