Good news that it sorted itself out. Both changes went in at once and the next run came back clean on the ADDS VMs too, so I don't think there's anything left to pin down here, and I'd rather say that than invent an explanation after the fact. Your question about the snapshot modes was the useful thing to come out of this thread. I went looking, they genuinely aren't documented anywhere, and that's written up on our side now If the fall back to a full ever comes back on the ADDS VMs specifically, that would deserve its own thread with the SMlog output @tjkreidl asked for, since nobody got to look at that part.

@Dezerd you just have to start-copy the Replica VM it permits the original job to keep replicating on the VM. there is no failover/failback mecanism AFAIK if you work on replica started VM, you will have to put up in place a replica going to original hosts

For information : The downgrade change nothing. The only solution was to reinstall xcp with the upgrade option (even if it was up to date before the bios update) If we go back to the original problem, the latest version of the Bios changes nothing (there is no information about the BIOS on the Host page)