Failover: Promoting a Target Pod after Source Pod Demotion

If the source pod has been demoted, and you promote the target pod, this process is generally called a "recovery" or a "failover". The purpose here is to bring down the workload on the original “source” site and is being brought up in a new site. The recovery process is:

1. Shutdown VMs running on restored datastores, and unregister them.
2. Unmount the datastore.
   1. If the source is AVS/Everpure Cloud Dedicated, execute the remove command. See Remove a Restored ActiveDR Pod with AVS.
   2. If the target is VMware on-premises/FlashArray. See Demoting an ActiveDR Pod in a VMware Environment .
3. Demote the source pod. See Demote an ActiveDR Pod with AVS

   On the target environment:

4. Promote the target pod. See Everpure Cloud Dedicated Active DR Guide with Azure VMware Solution.
5. Mount the datastore.
   1. If the target is AVS/Everpure Cloud Dedicated, execute the restore command. See Restore a Promoted ActiveDR Pod with AVS
   2. If the target is VMware on-premises/FlashArray. See Test Recovery: Promoting a Target Pod
6. Register and power on the virtual machines.