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How to Perform Manual Failover in Disaster Recovery?

Manual Failover allows you to recover your workloads by booting up the replicated volume in the destination site when the primary site fails or during a planned migration.

Follow the steps below to perform a Manual Failover:

Step 1: Loginarrow-up-right to your account.

Step 2: Take a Snapshot

a. Go to Storage and navigate to the replicated volume in the destination region (e.g., Mumbai).

b. Create a snapshot of this volume.

Step 3: Create a Volume from Snapshot

a. Navigate to Snapshots under Storage.

b. Use the snapshot to create a new volume.

c. This duplicates the data for restoration.

Step 4: Launch an Instance

a. Use the new volume as the root disk.

b. Configure required settings:

  1. Flavor (CPU/RAM)

  2. Key Pair

  3. Network settings

  4. Security Settings

Step 5: Failover Completed

a. The new instance is now active in the destination region.

b. Your workload has successfully failed over.

Note: Always validate the replicated instance after failover to ensure applications and services are running as expected.

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