There are following types of recovery points available for your selection: Once you click “ Test Failover“, the next snapshot shows the available recovery points for the Replica Virtual Machine.įigure 1.21 – Available Recovery Points for a Replica Virtual Machine
This type of failover can be performed by using the “ Test Failover” option located on the Right Click context menu on the Replica Virtual Machine as shown in the Figure 1.20 below.įigure 1.20 – “Test Failover” action on Right Click Context Menu of Replica Virtual Machine
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NOTE: The “Test Failover” is same as Windows Failover Cluster’s “ Simulate” feature. You can initiate a “ Test Failover” without impacting the Primary Virtual Machine. The “Failover Test” action is executed on the Replica Virtual Machine to ensure that it can come online successfully at the Replica Server in case of a Primary Virtual Machine running on Primary Server disaster. Test Failover, as the name suggests, can be used to run tests against the Replica Virtual Machine. Some of the failover tests can be used for the Primary Virtual Machine and some can be used for Replica Virtual Machine. Hyper-V Failoverįor any Primary and Replica Virtual Machine in a Hyper-V Replica environment, there are three types of failover operations available. Stopping the replication for the Virtual Machine does not delete the Virtual Machine and its files from the Replica Server! You must manually delete the files if you need to do so. This action can be performed on the Primary or Replica Server. “ Remove Replication” is used to stop the replication for the Replica Virtual Machine. This action can be performed from the Primary or Replica Server. “ View Replication Health” brings up the following screen which shows the overall status of the Replica Virtual Machine. The status of the Virtual Machine replication will be reflected on the “Replication Health” status page. “ Pause Replication” pauses the replication for the Virtual Machine. “Failover” and “Test Failover” will be discussed further on in this article. Replication Actions on a Replica Virtual Machineįor any Replica Virtual Machine participating in the Hyper-V Replica, right-click the machine name to bring up the context menu and view the Replication actions available as shown in the figure 1.19 below:įigure 1.19 – Context Menu of the Replica Virtual Machine on Replica Server Every five minutes, the primary site sends information regarding these last five minutes to the replica site where this information is replayed into the Hyper-V Replica. Hyper-V hosts are also located in this replica site but they contain replicas of virtual machines that are running in the primary site.
Besides the primary site there’s also a replica site. In this article, I’ll explain the Replication options for a Replica Virtual Machine.Ī Hyper-V Replica installation consists of a primary site where all Hyper-V hosts and the respective Virtual Machines are running.
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In Part I of this article series, I explained the basic concepts of Microsoft Hyper-V Replica and how to configure a virtual machine for Hyper-V Replication. A Practical Guide to Microsoft Hyper-V Replica: Part II - Simple Talk
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