To perform an operation on an application

1. Select the application on which you want to peform an operation. If you click the application name, the application details view appears.

   You can also select multiple applications and perform an operation on them simultaneously.

2. Click the appropriate button on the command bar as follows:

   • Firedrill

     Click this button to test the application recovery configuration. The fire drill operation recovers the application in a bubble network in the cloud, which verifies that the recovery configuration works as expected.

     You can perform a fire drill only on an application that is currently online at the on-premises site.

     See Testing a disaster recovery configuration by performing a fire drill.

   • Start Replication or Stop Replication

     When an application recovery configuration is finalized, the replication is started automatically. Click Stop Replication if you want to stop the ongoing replication to resolve an issue or to perform a planned activity that might disrupt the replication. To start the replication after it has been stopped (not paused), click Start Replication. The initial synchronization task is performed, which might take a long time to complete, depending on the data that needs to be copied from the primary site to the secondary site.

     See Starting or stopping the replication of application data.

   • Takeover

     Click this button to take over the application processing in the cloud. This might be required in case of a failure at the on-premises site or in case of planned migration of the application to the cloud site.

     You can perform Takeover only on an application that is currently online at the on-premises site.

     See Taking over application processing at the cloud site.

   • Failback

     Click this button to fail back the application processing to the on-premises site. You might want to do this when the on-premises has recovered from a failure, so that you do not incur costs for the resources in the cloud.

     You can perform Failback only on an application that is currently online in the cloud.

     See Failing back application processing to the on-premises site.

   • Unconfigure

     Click this button to remove the application recovery configuration.

     You can remove an application recovery configuration only when the application is online at the on-premises site.

     See Removing the recovery configuration of an application.

   Note:

   If an operation is already in progress on some or all of the selected applications, an error message is displayed accordingly. You must wait until an ongoing operation is complete to trigger another operation.