Run a Recovery Plan

When you run a recovery plan,

Site Recovery Manager

migrates all virtual machines in the recovery plan to the recovery site.

Site Recovery Manager

attempts to shut down the corresponding virtual machines on the protected site.

To use forced recovery, you must first enable this function. You enable forced recovery by enabling the

recovery.forceRecovery

setting as described in Change Recovery Settings.

Ensure that you have configured full inventory mappings. If you have only configured temporary placeholder inventory mappings and you run a planned migration with the

Enable vMotion of eligible VMs

option, planned migration fails, even though both sites are running.

To use the

Enable vMotion of eligible VMs

option with planned migration, enable vMotion on the virtual machines. For instructions about enabling vMotion on virtual machines, see Enable vSphere vMotion for Planned Migration.

A recovery plan makes significant alterations in the configurations of the protected and recovery sites, and stops replication. Do not run any recovery plan that you have not tested. Reversing these changes might cost significant time and effort and can result in prolonged service downtime.

In the

vSphere Client

, click

Site Recovery

Open Site Recovery

On the

Site Recovery

home tab, select a site pair, and click

View Details

Click the

Recovery Plans

tab, right-click a recovery plan, and click

Run

Review the information in the confirmation prompt, and select

I understand that this process will permanently alter the virtual machines and infrastructure of both the protected and recovery datacenters

Select the type of recovery to run.

Option	Description
Planned Migration	Recovers virtual machines to the recovery site when both sites are running. If errors occur on the protected site during a planned migration, the planned migration operation fails. If your array supports stretched storage, select the Enable vMotion of eligible VMs check box.
Disaster Recovery	Recovers virtual machines to the recovery site if the protected site experiences a problem. If errors occur on the protected site during a disaster recovery, the disaster recovery continues and does not fail.