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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.

Learn about user roles and permissions in NetApp Disaster Recovery.
Learn about NetApp Console access roles for all services.

About this task

In this workflow, 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:

  • Perform a compliance check on the recovered site.

  • Refresh the vCenter information for each vCenter cluster identified as located in the recovered site.

  • On the target site, power off and unregister the virtual machines, and unmount volumes.

  • Break the SnapMirror relationship on the original source to make it read/write.

  • Resynchronize the SnapMirror relationship to reverse the replication.

  • Power on and register the source virtual machines, and mount the volumes on the source.

Steps

  1. Log in to the NetApp Console.

  2. From the NetApp Console left navigation, select Protection > Disaster recovery.

  3. From the NetApp Disaster Recovery menu, select Replication plans.

  4. Select the replication plan.

  5. On the right, select the Actions option Actions menu icon in NetApp Disaster Recovery service and select Fail back.

  6. Enter the replication plan name to confirm and start the failback.

  7. Choose the snapshot for the datastore from which to recover. The default is the latest.

  8. To check the progress, in the menu, select Job monitoring.