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. 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 navigation pane, go to Auto Recovery > Replication groups.
The Replication groups page appears.
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Under Group name, click a replication group.
The replication group details page appears.
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On the Overview tab, in the upper-right area of the page, click Failover, and then select 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.
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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.