In the event of a system failure, the VMM must preserve any information necessary to determine cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with least disruption to mission processes.

Failure to a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization. Failure to a known secure state helps prevent a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability in the event of a failure of the VMM or a component of the system. Preserving VMM state information helps to facilitate VMM restart and return to the operational mode of the organization with less disruption of mission/business processes.

Verify the VMM preserves any information necessary, in the event of a system failure, to determine cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with least disruption to mission processes. If it does not, this is a finding.

Configure the VMM to preserve any information necessary, in the event of a system failure, to determine cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with least disruption to mission processes.