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title: "Running HPE Storage Failover"
description: "It is recommended that you do not enable the auto synchronize option for the remote copy group as it may cause performance issues during the failover process."
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# Running HPE Storage Failover

::: important

It is recommended that you do not enable the auto synchronize option for the remote copy group as it may cause performance issues during the failover process. For more information on the auto synchronize option, see [Hewlett Packard Enterprise Support Center](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=sd00001201en_us&page=auto_synchronize_policy_about.html).

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To run an HPE storage plan:

1. Navigate to **Recovery Plans**.
2. Select the plan and click **Run**.
3. In the **Run Plan** window, do the following:

   1. For security purposes, retype your password and click **Next**. 

      You must also select the **Force-enable the plan** check box if you have not enabled the plan yet.

   2. Review configuration information and click **Finish**.

::: note

For HPE storage plans, the **Run Plan** wizard does not offer you to choose a restore point that will be used to recover VMs. By design, Orchestrator will always use the most recent replicated data. This is a limitation of HPE storage systems.

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[![Running Storage Failover](images/run_hpe.png "Running Storage Failover")](images/run_hpe.png){.toggle scale=65}

The plan goal is to reach the *FAILOVER* state. If any critical error is encountered, the plan will stop with the *HALTED* state. To learn how to work with *HALTED* storage plans, see [Managing Halted Plans](managing_halted_storage_plans.md).

::: important

After the storage failover process completes, Orchestrator will leave the plan in the *IN-USE* mode. By design, this makes the results of the storage failover process accessible in the Orchestrator UI as long as required, and also prevents the plan from being modified by any automatic updates related to infrastructure changes.

If you want to perform any further actions with the plan (for example, to test the plan, to run readiness checks or to execute the plan again), reset the plan as described in section [Resetting Storage Plans](resetting_storage_plans.md).

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