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title: "Orchestrating Failback with NetApp Storage Plans"
description: "After you run a NetApp storage plan and want to fail back to VMs running on source volumes, you must perform the following steps: Add a new storage recovery location and specify the source volumes as target storage systems as described in section..."
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# 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:

1. Add a new storage recovery location and specify the source 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_netapp.md).

::: tip

If the **Reprotect storage volumes after failover** check box at the **Reprotect Volumes** step of the [Run Plan wizard](running_storage_failover_netapp.md#reprotect) 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](https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap-sm-classic/online-help-96-97/task_reverse_resynchronizing_snapmirror_relationships.html).

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