You can perform a planned failover operation for an entire replication group during maintenance on the source sites. Only VMs that are eligible fail over. You can perform a replication group failback operation to return replication operations to all source sites in the replication group.
Before You Begin
Create a periodic replication group.
Procedure
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From the navigation pane, go to Auto recovery > Replication groups.
The Replication groups tab appears.
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Click the replication group.
The replication group page appears.
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On the Overview tab, in the upper-right area of the page, click the Failover button, and then select Planned failover.
The Planned failover dialog box appears.
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Click Yes.
Results
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Source VMs are powered off.
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Backup job runs on source VMs.
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Replication job runs.
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Replication is disabled for the VMs that failed over.
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Destination VMs are powered on.