You can perform an unplanned failover operation for an entire replication group to make the destination VMs active in an emergency situation. Only VMs that are eligible fail over. After a replication group failover, replication operations are disabled for the VMs that failed 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 Command Center navigation pane, go to Secure > Auto recovery > Replication groups.
The Replication groups page appears.
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Under Group name, click a replication group.
The Overview* tab of the replication group page appears.
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In the upper-right area of the page, click Failover, and then select Unplanned failover.
The Unplanned failover dialog box appears.
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For Azure and AWS VM pairs, select the Retain disk snapshots for undo failover operation check box to enable undo failover after failover operations.
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Click Yes.
Result
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Source VMs are stopped.
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Replication is disabled for the VMs that failed over.
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The destination VMs are powered on.