Planned failover allows the user to intentionally switch workloads from the primary region to a recovery region in a controlled and scheduled manner. Protected VMs on the primary region will be gracefully shut down before failing over to the secondary region.

To start planned failover:

    1. Log into the AROVA web UI, select a Protected Domain then click the FAILOVER button.
      (The FAILOVER button will only appear if the Domain has at least one recoverable VM.)
    2. The Failover Protected Domain window will appear.
      • Select the Planned Failover checkbox then click the FAILOVER button to begin planned failover.
        • During planned failover, the primary VMs will shut down gracefully and then be re-created in the secondary region using the already replicated secondary disks.
        • Ensure graceful shutdown maximum duration is configured to adequately allow the VMs in the primary region to cleanly shut down.
        • The primary VMs in the primary region will not be deleted after completion of the planned failover.

Figure 97: Using the Planned Failover option.