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The recovery option Planned migration assures a graceful migration of virtual machines from a local vCenter to a remote vCenter. Any errors that the recovery plan encounters immediately fails the operation and requires the user to remediate these errors and restart the migration process. Therefore, a planned migration assumes the following things (among other minor details):
Before running a recovery plan failover, Dell Technologies recommends testing the recovery plan first, preferably multiple times. Information on configuring and running a recovery test is available in the section Test Failover.
The first step is to ensure that each PowerFlex volume pair in the RCG is in a proper state. The pairs should be in a Consistent state as shown for PowerFlex 3 and 4 in Figure 85.
While the Status column is, in general, a good indicator of PowerFlex pair states, it is inadequate to cover all pair states. It is advisable to use the PowerFlex 3 or 4 GUI to determine the exact status.
A planned migration can be initiated by selecting the appropriate recovery plan and selecting the RUN link as shown in Figure 87.
Once the Recovery link has been selected, a short confirmation wizard appears asking to confirm the initiation of the recovery operation and in which mode the recovery plan should be run.
In this example, the default Planned migration is chosen. The check box must be selected to proceed. This screen is shown in Figure 88.
The PowerFlex GUI indicates that the RCG State is in Failover as shown in Figure 90.