5 Manage Disaster Recovery Plan Executions

A Disaster Recovery (DR) plan execution is created when any DR plan is executed or a precheck for the DR plan is executed. Disaster recovery operations include switchover and failover.

• Overview of Disaster Recovery Plan Executions
  A Disaster Recovery (DR) plan execution contains all the groups and steps that are contained in the DR plan, along with their execution attributes, such as Error Mode, Timeout, and Enabled/Disabled.
• Create Disaster Recovery Plan Executions
  You can manually create a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan execution to start executing a DR plan.
• Prechecks for Disaster Recovery Plan Executions
  Run Precheck performs a comprehensive validation of all the steps in a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan and the members associated with the steps.
• Monitor Disaster Recovery Plan Executions
  Monitor the Disaster Recovery (DR) plan executions to check progress of the plan execution and view logs to check for errors.
• Pause a Disaster Recovery Plan Execution
  You can pause only the Disaster Recovery (DR) plan executions that are in progress. You cannot pause prechecks.
• Resume a Disaster Recovery Plan Execution
  You can resume only the Disaster Recovery (DR) plan executions that are paused. You can not pause or resume prechecks.
• Cancel a Disaster Recovery Plan Execution
  You can cancel a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan execution to stop executing the plan. You cannot resume or retry a canceled DR plan execution.
• Retry a Group in Disaster Recovery Plan Execution
  Retry a group execution is possible when a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan execution or precheck is in a Failed state. A DR plan execution or precheck enters a Failed state when one of its steps fails to execute.
• Retry a Step in Disaster Recovery Plan Execution
  Retry a step is possible when a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan execution or precheck is in a Failed state. A DR plan execution or precheck enters a Failed state when one of its steps fails to execute.
• Skip a Step in Disaster Recovery Plan Execution
  You can skip a step only when a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan execution is in a Failed state. A DR plan execution enters a Failed state when one of its steps fails to execute.
• Skip a Group in Disaster Recovery Plan Execution
  You can skip a group only when a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan execution or precheck is in a Failed state. A DR plan execution or precheck enters a Failed state when one of its groups or steps fails to execute.
• Delete Disaster Recovery Plan Executions
  You can delete a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan execution that is in a terminal state, which is either Succeeded or Canceled.