Planned Failover from Source to Destination Hyper-V Replica

To fail over a guest session to another site, a planned failover, follow these steps:

1. In the Hyper-V Manager console on the source server, right-click the guest session that you want to fail over to the destination server and choose Replication, Planned Failover.

2. Review the prerequisites for a planned failover, as shown in Figure 36.16. Pre-requisites include shutting down the source server. Click Fail Over to initiate the failover process.

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Figure 36.16. Planned failover of a Hyper-V replica.

The guest session will fail over from primary server to destination server and still start ...

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