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Orchestrating Failback with Storage Plans

Orchestrating Failback with NetApp Storage Plans

After you run a NetApp storage plan and want to fail back to VMs running on source volumes, you must perform the following steps:

Reset the plan as described in section Resetting Storage Plans.
Wait approximately 5 minutes for Orchestrator to collect data on the updated configuration.
Run a readiness check to ensure the plan is ready for failback as described in section Running Plan Readiness Check.
Run the plan again as described in section Running Storage Failover.

Tip

If the Reprotect storage volumes after failover check box at the Reprotect Volumes step of the Run Plan wizard was not selected during the previous failover, you should first reverse the protection relationship between the source and destination volumes as described in the NetApp ONTAP Documentation Center.

Orchestrating Failback with HPE Storage Plans

After you run an HPE storage plan and want to fail back to VMs running on primary volumes, you must perform the following steps:

Reset the plan as described in section Resetting Storage Plans.
Wait approximately 5 minutes for Orchestrator to collect data on the updated configuration.
Run a readiness check to ensure the plan is ready for failback as described in section Running Plan Readiness Check.
Run the plan again as described in section Running Storage Failover.
Perform the start operation for the remote copy group as described in the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Support Center for 3PAR storage systems and Primera storage systems.

Tip

If you have not enabled the auto synchronize option for the remote copy group before running the plan, you should also:

Perform the recover operation for the remote copy group as described in the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Support Center for 3PAR storage systems and Primera storage systems.
Connect to the target storage system through SSH and run the following command: setrcopygroup reverse -stopgroups -natural <remotecopygroupname>
Perform the start operation for the remote copy group as described in the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Support Center for 3PAR storage systems and Primera storage systems.