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title: "Performing Replica Failover"
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# Performing Replica Failover

## Before You Begin

Before you perform failover, consider the following:

- For original VMs and replica VMs located in the same network. If you plan to perform replica failover while the original VM is running, consider temporarily disconnecting the original VM from the network to avoid IP addresses or machine names conflicts.
- To successfully fail over to a VM replica, make sure that this replica has at least one successfully created restore point.

  To check whether restore points are created, open the inventory pane of the **Home** view and select the **Replicas** node. Then, select the VM and verify that there is at least one restore point available for the VM.

## Performing Failover

To fail over to a VM replica, do the following.

1. In the inventory pane of the **Home** view, select the **Replicas** node.
2. Right-click the replicated VM and select **Failover Now** to launch the failover wizard.

   [![Launch Failover](images/vm_failover_launch.png "Launch Failover")](images/vm_failover_launch.png){.toggle scale=75}

3. At the **Virtual Machines** step of the wizard, select the VM from the list, click **Point** and choose the restore point to which you want to fail over.

   ![Choose Restore Point to Fail Over](images/vmware_failover_point.png "Choose Restore Point to Fail Over")

4. At the **Reason** step of the wizard, specify the reason for failover.
5. At the **Summary** step of the wizard, click **Finish** to fail over to the VM replica.

## Reference

For more information on failover, see the [Replica Failover](https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/failover.html?ver=13) (VMware vSphere) and [Replica Failover](https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/failover.html?ver=13) (Microsoft Hyper-V) sections in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.