HP Storage Mirroring Software - Manual (Page 498)

Failover Page 497 of 677
Failing over virtual workloads in the Storage Mirroring
Recover for Virtual Infrastructure console
1. Make sure your protection job is in an active (non-stopped) state.
2. On the Monitor protection page, select the connection that you want to failover
and click Failover in the toolbar.
3. Select the type of failover to perform.
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Live failover—Select this option to initiate a full, live failover. This option will
shutdown the source virtual machine (if available), stop the protection job,
and start the replica virtual machine on the target with full network
connectivity.
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Test failover—Select this option to perform a test failover without network
connectivity. This option will leave the source virtual machine online,
suspend the protection job, and start the replica virtual machine on the target
without network connectivity.
4. Select the failover timing.
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Complete the current replication cycle before failover—With this option,
failover will begin immediately after the current replication cycle is
completed. This option is not available if the job is in a stopped or error state.
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Failover immediately—With this option, failover will begin immediately
without waiting for the current replication cycle to complete.
5. Click Failover to begin failover.
6. You can undo failover, by clicking Undo Failover in the toolbar. The steps
completed depend on the type of failover (live or test) that you selected.
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Live failover— The replica virtual machine on the target will be shutdown,
the virtual machine on the source will be restarted, and the protection job will
be restarted performing a file differences remirror. When you undo a live
failover, all changes made on the replica virtual machine on the target will be
lost. If you do not want to lose the changes made on the replica virtual
machine on the target,
perform a restore and failback .
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Test failover—The replica virtual machine on the target will be shutdown
and the protection job will be restarted performing a file differences remirror.