Managing Failover

This section describes how to perform a failover to the recovery site after an unforeseen disaster. The following topics are described in this section:

■ The Failover Live Process

■ Initiating Failover Live

■ Reverse Protection for a Failed Over VPG

■ What Happens When the Protected Site is Down

■ Initiating Failover Live During a Test

Note: If you need to perform a failover while a retention process is running, first abort the retention process to enable the failover to run.