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Recipe: Perform an Undo Failover for a replicated VM

Expected deliverables:

When you undo failover, you switch back from a VM replica to the source VM after a Failover.

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:

1. Go to the Home View.
2. In the inventory pane, navigate to the Replicas > Active node.
3. Right-click one of the selected replicas and click Undo failover.
4. In the displayed window, click in Yes to confirm the action. As an option you can enable the Force undo failover checkbox.

Links to Resources:

• Veeam Guides and Helpcenter
• Veeam Community Forums
• Veeam Best Practices

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