After you run a recovery plan for a planned migration or disaster recovery of VMware Identity Manager, you can restore the pre-recovery site by performing a failback.

Performing a planned migration or a disaster recovery from site A to site B is a two-step process: recovery and reprotect. Recovery results in Recovery Time Objective (RTO) downtime. After the recovery from site A to site B, the recovered virtual machines run on site B without protection until you perform the reprotect operation.

Reprotect runs in parallel with VMware Identity Manager services. Therefore, end users do not experience further downtime during the reprotect operation.

Prerequisites

  • You performed a recovery, either as part of a planned migration or as part of a disaster recovery.
  • The original protected site, site A, is running.
  • You did not run reprotect after the recovery.
  • If you performed a disaster recovery, you must perform a planned migration when the hosts and datastores on the original protected site are running again.

Procedure