The Veeam Cookbook Series
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Recipe: Perform an Permanent Failover for a replicated VM
Expected deliverables:
When you perform permanent failover, you permanently switch from the source VM to its replica. The VM replica stops acting as a replica and starts acting as the production VM.
Time to complete: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- Virtual Machine to be recovered must have been replicated with a Veeam Replication Job successfully at least once.
- VM replicas must be in the Failover state.
Before you start:
Veeam Backup & Replication discards all changes made to the VM replica while it was in the Failover state.
Assumptions:
It’s assumed that you already have a Veeam Backup Server fully working in your environment.
Method:
- Go to the Home View.
- In the inventory pane, navigate to the Replicas > Active node.
- Right-click one of the selected replicas and click Permanent Failover.
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