Running Cloud Failover Plan

With a cloud failover plan, you can perform full site failover at any time. During the full site failover process the group of critical production VMs fail over to their replicas on the cloud host. You can fail over to the most recent VM state or select the necessary restore point for VMs in the cloud failover plan.

To fail over to the VM replicas latest restore point:

1. Log in to Veeam Cloud Connect Portal. The Failover Plans view will automatically open.
2. In the working area, select the necessary cloud failover plan and click Start.

To quickly find the necessary cloud failover plan, you can use the search field at the top-right of the working area.

3. In the displayed dialog box, select the Start now option and click Start.
4. Monitor the cloud failover process and view results.

To fail over to a certain restore point:

1. Log in to Veeam Cloud Connect Portal. The Failover plans view will automatically open.
2. In the working area, select the necessary cloud failover plan and click Start.

To quickly find the necessary cloud failover plan, you can use the search field at the top-right of the working area.

3. In the displayed dialog box, select the Start to most recent replica prior to option, select the replication date and time and click Start. Veeam Backup & Replication will find the closest restore point prior to the entered value for each VM and fail over to it.
4. Monitor the cloud failover process and view results.