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Restoring Data to a Bare Metal Machine after Failover

As a System Administrator you are responsible for ensuring that data is replicated and failover happens when a Master server does not respond. In such a case, you create a recovery scenario to restore data from its Replica. You have the option of restoring data to a bare metal machine. The bare metal recovery feature not only restores data but also builds the bare metal machine by installing the operating system, applications, and other necessary components.

A bare metal recovery provides the following benefits:

• Builds a machine exactly similar to the Master before restoring data
• Recovers data even to a dissimilar hardware
• Recovers data on a volume level

The following diagram illustrates restoring data to a bare metal machine using Reverse Replication.

Perform the following tasks to restore data:

• Review Prerequisites
• Prepare a Bare Metal Machine
• Create and Run the Recovery Scenario
• (Optional) Perform a Manual Switchover
• Verify the Bare Metal Machine Properties