Set the Plan Datastore

Before you run a failback recovery plan, you must first set the plan's datastore configuration.

A failback recovery plan has a special page of the plan wizard for setting a default failback datastore. In situations where the original datastore from the protected site is no longer available, you need to choose a specific datastore to use for failback.

Typically, VMs fail back to their original datastores. For example, if at the time of failback the original VM still exists on the failover target, VMware Live Cyber Recovery preserves the datastores and folders of all its VMDKs, and the VM itself.

If the VM no longer exists (or the site is new), VMware Live Cyber Recovery recovers this VM to the datastore you define in the plan.

If the target vCenter Server is no longer available, you can select any other vCenter associated with a failover site while configuring the failback plan. You can edit a newly created failback plan and select a default datastore. You can edit all other failback plan mappings similar to mappings in a regular failover plan.