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Running Cloud Failover Plan

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With a cloud failover plan, the SP can perform full site failover upon tenant's request at any time. During full site failover, tenant VMs fail over to their replicas on the cloud host one by one, as a group. You can fail over to the most recent VM state or select the necessary restore point for VMs in the cloud failover plan.

The SP can run a tenant's cloud failover plan from the Veeam Backup & Replication console on the SP Veeam backup server.

Running Cloud Failover Plan Important!

When you perform failover to a VM replica created from a backup file, is recommended that you use restore points created with Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0 Update 1 or later. Such restore points in a backup chain contain additional network settings data for backed-up VMs that is required to correctly perform the failover operation.

To fail over to the VM replicas latest restore point:

Open the Cloud Connect view.
In the inventory pane, click Replicas > Failover Plans.
In the working area, click the necessary cloud failover plan and click Start on the ribbon or right-click the necessary cloud failover plan and select Start.

To fail over to a certain restore point:

Open the Cloud Connect view.
In the inventory pane, click Replicas > Failover Plans.
In the working area, click the necessary cloud failover plan and click Start to on the ribbon or right-click the necessary cloud failover plan and select Start to.
In the displayed dialog box, select the backup date and time. Veeam Backup & Replication will find the closest restore point prior to the entered value for each VM and fail over to it.