Fail back applications to the original source with NetApp Disaster Recovery
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After a disaster has been resolved, fail back from the disaster recovery site to the source site to return to normal operations. You can select the snapshot from which to recover.
Required NetApp Console role
Organization admin, Folder or project admin, Disaster recovery admin, or Disaster recovery failover admin role.
About failback
In failback, NetApp Disaster Recovery replicates (resyncs) any changes back to the original source virtual machine before reversing the replication direction. This process starts from a relationship that has completed failing over to a target and involves the following steps:
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Perform a compliance check on the recovered site.
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Refresh the vCenter information for each vCenter cluster identified as located in the recovered site.
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On the target site, power off and unregister the virtual machines, and unmount volumes.
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Break the SnapMirror relationship on the original source to make it read/write.
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Resynchronize the SnapMirror relationship to reverse the replication.
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Power on and register the source virtual machines, and mount the volumes on the source.
Before you begin
If you're using datastore-based protection, VMs that have been added to the datastore might be added to the datastore in the failover process. If this has happened, ensure you provide the additional mapping information for these VMs before initiating failback. To edit the resource mapping, see Manage replication plans.
Steps
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From the NetApp Disaster Recovery menu, select Replication plans.
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In the dropdown menu, set the filter to VMware.
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Identify the replication plan you want to failback. Select the Actions option
, hover over Recover then select Failback. -
Choose the snapshot for the datastore from which to recover. Select Take snapshot now to initiate a new snapshot or Select to choose from available snapshots.
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Enter "Failback" to confirm the operation then select Failback.
To monitor the job's progress, select Job monitoring in the Disaster Recovery menu.
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From the NetApp Disaster Recovery menu, select Replication plans.
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In the dropdown menu, filter to Kubernetes replication plans.
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Identify the replication plan you want to failback. Select the Actions option
, hover over Recover then select Failback. -
Choose the snapshot for the cluster from which to recover. Select Take snapshot now to initiate a new snapshot or Use latest snapshot to use the most recent, successful snapshot.
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Enter "Failback" to confirm the operation then select Failback.
To monitor the job's progress, select Job monitoring in the Disaster Recovery menu.