You can pause only the Disaster Recovery (DR) plan executions that are in progress. You cannot pause prechecks.

1. Navigate to the Resource page for the standby DR protection group.
2. Click the Plan Executions link in the Resources panel to navigate to the Plan Executions page for the DR protection group.
   A list of all DR plan executions and prechecks for the protection group is displayed.
3. The DR plan execution or precheck that is currently executing is displayed at the top of the list and has a state of In Progress.
4. Click the DR plan execution or precheck that is currently executing to go to the page for the DR plan execution or precheck.
5. Click the Pause button to pause execution of the DR plan execution.
   The DR plan execution moves to a paused state after the currently executing plan group has finished execution. The DR protection group remains in an updating state while the DR plan execution is paused.