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Failing over virtual workloads in the Double-Take Availability for VMware Infrastructure console

Make sure your protection job is in an active (non-stopped) state.
On the Monitor protection page, select the connection that you want to failover and click Failover in the toolbar.
Select the type of failover to perform.

Live failover—Select this option to initiate a full, live failover. This option will shutdown the source virtual machine (if available), stop the protection job, and start the replica virtual machine on the target with full network connectivity.
Test failover—Select this option to perform a test failover without network connectivity. This option will leave the source virtual machine online, suspend the protection job, and start the replica virtual machine on the target without network connectivity.

Complete the current replication cycle before failover—With this option, failover will begin immediately after the current replication cycle is completed. This option is not available if the job is in a stopped or error state.
Failover immediately—With this option, failover will begin immediately without waiting for the current replication cycle to complete.

Click Failover to begin failover.
You can undo failover, by clicking Undo Failover in the toolbar. The steps completed depend on the type of failover (live or test) that you selected.

Live failover— The replica virtual machine on the target will be shutdown, the virtual machine on the source will be restarted, and the protection job will be restarted performing a file differences remirror. When you undo a live failover, all changes made on the replica virtual machine on the target will be lost. If you do not want to lose the changes made on the replica virtual machine on the target, perform a restore and failback.
Test failover—The replica virtual machine on the target will be shutdown and the protection job will be restarted performing a file differences remirror.