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title: "Failover and Failback"
description: "When you have a replica of a VM, you can use it to fail over to it in case of the original VM malfunction or for testing."
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dateModified: "2026-08-19"
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# Failover and Failback

When you have a replica of a VM, you can use it to fail over to it in case of the original VM malfunction or for testing.

## In This Section

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  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th style="width:39%;">
      <p>VMware</p>
    </th>
    <th style="width:39%;">
      <p>Hyper-V</p>
    </th>
    <th style="width:39%;">
      <p>Operation</p>
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    <td>
      <p><a href="start-vbrvireplicafailover.md" class="T_Filenames">Start-VBRViReplicaFailover</a></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a href="start-vbrhvreplicafailover.md" class="T_Filenames">Start-VBRHvReplicaFailover</a></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Fail over corrupted VMs to their replicas.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p><a href="start-vbrvireplicafailback.md" class="T_Filenames">Start-VBRViReplicaFailback</a></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a href="start-vbrhvreplicafailback.md" class="T_Filenames">Start-VBRHvReplicaFailback</a></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Fails back to production host.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p><a href="stop-vbrvireplicafailback.md" class="T_Filenames">Stop-VBRViReplicaFailback</a></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><a href="stop-vbrhvreplicafailback.md" class="T_Filenames">Stop-VBRHvReplicaFailback</a></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Undoes replica failback.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p><a href="stop-vbrreplicafailover.md" class="T_Filenames">Stop-VBRReplicaFailover</a></p>
    </td>
    <td></td>
    <td>
      <p>Undoes replica failover.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>