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Run a planned failback

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Run a planned failback

- [Instructor] And the final step of failing over into Azure is the ability to fail back. In the example that we used where we had an issue on-premise, once that issue was resolved, whether it be a hardware failure or a power outage, we can go ahead and fail back. And it's very easy to do. We're back into the VM1 replicated items. And you'll notice here, we can go ahead and click on planned failover. And this time you'll notice their failover direction is from Azure to our Hyper-V server. Next you have a data sync option. So you can minimize the downtime or you can do a full download. I'm going to go ahead and select minimize downtime. And our last option is to create the VM on-premise if that virtual machine does not already exist. So let's say it was a hardware failure and you had to rebuild the virtual machine, this would allow you to do so. You would go ahead, select hyperv, and off it goes. I don't need to do that, so I'm just going to go ahead and click OK. And again, the…

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