You can perform a planned failover operation for an entire recovery group during maintenance on the source sites. Only VMs that are eligible fail over. After a recovery group failover, replication operations are disabled for the VMs that failed over. You can perform a recovery group failback operation to return replication operations to all source sites in the recovery group.
Before You Begin
Create a periodic recovery group.
Procedure
From the navigation pane, go to Auto Recovery.
The Recovery groups tab appears.
Under Group name, click a recovery group.
The recovery group details page appears.
On the Overview tab, in the upper-right area of the page, click Planned failover.
The Planned failover dialog box appears. For Azure, The option Retain disk snapshots for undo failover operation must be selected to enable undo failover after failover operations.
Click Yes.
Result
Source VMs are powered off.
Backup job runs on source VMs.
Replication job runs.
Replication is disabled for the VMs that failed over.
Destination VMs are powered on.