Test failover should be attempted after initial replication is complete

Applies to: Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016

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Property Details
Operating System Windows Server 2016
Product/Feature Hyper-V
Severity Warning
Category Operations

In the following sections, italics indicates UI text that appears in the Best Practices Analyzer tool for this issue.

Problem

There has been no test failover in at least one month.

Impact

There is no confirmation that a planned or unplanned failover will succeed or workload operations will continue properly after a failover. This impacts the following virtual machines:

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Resolution

Use Hyper-V Manager to conduct a test failover.