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Hello, I will need to power off a "Metro Standby Site", which has VMs running on it. I would like to manually migrate those VMs to the primary (active) site and Shut down / Power Off the nodes in the Standby site approx. 24-36 hours. All VMs need to be running on the active side and no VMs are to be restarted (RTO + RPO =0). The steps I propose to take to achieve the goal are as follows: I have included as much environment info as possible. Any insight or corrections to this process are welcome. Thanks in Advance Phase I (Configure Standby Site) Disable/suspend the (x1) asynch PD (from Primary) Update VMware DRS Rules (Manual) (from Primary) Disable HA Manually perform vMotion of all VMs to active site. Configured VM affinities to the hosts of the primary site and set the DRS rules to Fully Automated. Create new VMGroup and Host Group if needed I do not want to disable DRS and lose my DRS Affinity Rules Disable Metro per PD (x3) (from Primary) Phase II (Power Off
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