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    Run Failover

    Unlike test failover jobs which can be run multiple times and are available to be reset, failover is a one-time job for each resilience policy. After a resilience policy is failed over, all relevant replication jobs will stop running and no future failover jobs can be run for this policy. Resources created during your test failover jobs will be reset as well. To protect the same resource scope, you’ll need to create a new resilience policy. Therefore, for testing purposes, run failover test jobs instead of the failover job.

    To run failover jobs, complete the following steps:

    1. On the Infrastructure resilience page, select your target resilience policy.

    2. Click Failover.

    3. In the confirmation window, you can check the time of your latest recovery point. If you click OK here, a failover job will run based on this recovery point.

      To fail over based on another recovery point, click see more details in the confirmation window, and you will be redirected to Policy details > Recovery points. Select a successfully created recovery point in the left section, and click Failover on the upper-right. The failover job will run based on this selected recovery point.

    Refer to the following table for the details of failover for each resource type.

    Cloud Service TypeResourceFailover Details
    Microsoft AzureVirtual machineCreate virtual machine in the policy’s target environment .
    Microsoft AzureSQL databaseApply metadata of the selected recovery point to the database replicated in the policy’s target environment.
    Microsoft AzureStorage accountApply metadata of the selected recovery point to the storage account replicated in the policy’s target environment.Delete the replication rule created by the policy’s replication job from the Azure object replication page.
    Microsoft AzureKubernetes ServiceCreate Kubernetes clusters and disk storage in the policy’s target environment.
    Microsoft AzureMy SQL flexible serviceApply metadata of the latest recovery point to the database replicated in the policy’s target environment.Delete the read replica created by the policy’s replication job from the source database.
    Microsoft AzurePostgreSQL flexible serverApply metadata of the latest recovery point to the database replicated in the policy’s target environment.Delete the read replica created by the policy’s replication job from the source database.
    Amazon Web ServicesEC2 instanceCreate EC2 instances, IAM roles, policies in the policy’s target environment and apply the saved settings.
    Amazon Web ServicesS3 bucketApply metadata of the selected recovery point to the S3 bucket replicated in the policy’s target environment.Delete the replication rule created by the policy’s replication job from your S3 bucket.
    Amazon Web ServicesAurora and RDS databaseApply metadata of the selected recovery point to the database replicated in the policy’s target environment.Delete the read replica created by the policy’s replication job from the source database.
    Amazon Web ServicesDynamoDBApply metadata of the selected recovery point to the database replicated in the policy’s target environment.Delete the read replica created by the policy’s replication job from the source database.
    Amazon Web ServicesElastic Kubernetes ServiceCreate Kubernetes cluster, disk storage, IAM role, and IAM policy related to the cluster in the target environment.*Note: If there are IAM role and policy with the same names, new ones will not be created
    Google CloudCloud storageApply metadata of the latest recovery point to the bucket replicated in the policy’s target environment.Delete replication destination in source bucket and cross-bucket replication.
    Google CloudKubernetes engineCreate Kubernetes cluster, disk storage, IAM role, and IAM principle and role of related instance.*Note: If there are IAM role and policy with the same names, new ones will not be created.
    Google CloudSQL instanceApply metadata of the latest recovery point to the instance replicated in the policy’s target environment.Delete the read replica created by the policy’s replication job from the source database.
    Google CloudVirtual Machine (VM) instanceCreate VM instance, IAM roles, and IAM principles related to the instance.*Note: If there are IAM role and policy with the same names, new ones will not be created.

    If you have configured a Webhook URL in the resilience policy, the failover job details will be sent to the configured URL in HTTP/HTTPS POST requests. An example of the details sent is as follows:

    { "PolicyName": "policy01", "ResourceMapping": [ { "ResourceId": "/subscriptions/xxxxxx/resourceGroups/xxxxxx/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/vm01", "ResourceType": "VirtualMachine", "ResourceName": "vm01", "TargetResourceId": "/subscriptions/xxxxxx/resourceGroups/xxxxxx/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/vm01" }, { "ResourceId": "/subscriptions/xxxxxx/resourceGroups/xxxxxx/providers/Microsoft.Compute/disks/vm01_OsDisk_1_94794b06b4df4cdf868f6d1cd692dccc", "ResourceType": "Disk", "ResourceName": "vm01_OsDisk_1_94794b06b4df4cdf868f6d1cd692dccc", "TargetResourceId": "/subscriptions/xxxxxx/resourceGroups/xxxxxx/providers/Microsoft.Compute/disks/vm01_OsDisk_1_94794b06b4df4cdf868f6d1cd692dccc" }, { "ResourceId": "/subscriptions/xxxxxx/resourceGroups/xxxxxx/providers/Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/vm01898_z1", "ResourceType": "NetworkInterface", "ResourceName": "vm01898_z1", "TargetResourceId": "/subscriptions/xxxxxx/resourceGroups/xxxxxx/providers/Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/vm01898_z1" }, { "ResourceId": "/subscriptions/xxxxxx/resourceGroups/xxxxxx/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/vnet01", "ResourceType": "VirtualNetwork", "ResourceName": "vnet01", "TargetResourceId": "/subscriptions/xxxxxx/resourceGroups/xxxxxx/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/vnet01" }, { "ResourceId": "/subscriptions/xxxxxx/resourceGroups/xxxxxx/providers/Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/vm01-ip", "ResourceType": "PublicIPAddress", "ResourceName": "vm01-ip", "TargetResourceId": "/subscriptions/xxxxxx/resourceGroups/xxxxxx/providers/Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/vm01-ip" } ]}