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title: "Orchestrating Failback with HPE Storage Plans"
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# 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:

1. Add a new storage recovery location and specify the primary volumes as target storage systems as described in section [Managing Recovery Locations](adding_storage_locations.md). 
2. Reset the plan as described in section [Resetting Storage Plans](resetting_storage_plans.md).
3. Wait approximately 5 minutes for Orchestrator to collect data on the updated configuration. 
4. Run a readiness check to ensure the plan is ready for failback as described in section [Running Plan Readiness Check](running_readiness_check.md).
5. Run the plan again as described in section [Running Storage Failover](running_storage_failover_hpe.md).
6. Perform the start operation for the remote copy group as described in the [Hewlett Packard Enterprise Support Center](https://support.hpe.com/).

::: tip

To trigger reverse replication and reprotect volumes included in the plan, do the following:

1. Perform the recover operation for the remote copy group as described in the [Hewlett Packard Enterprise Support Center](https://support.hpe.com/).
2. Connect to the target storage system through SSH and run the following command: `setrcopygroup reverse -stopgroups -natural <remotecopygroupname>`
3. Perform the start operation for the remote copy group as described in the [Hewlett Packard Enterprise Support Center](https://support.hpe.com/).

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