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Run an unplanned failover

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Run an unplanned failover

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- [Instructor] Once you have completed a test failover and everything works properly, you can then be confident about when a real failure happens, and you have two options for initiating a failover. You have a planned failover, and you would use this for when you knew the on-premise environment was going to be down for repairs, et cetera. Then you have the unplanned failover. In this case, for some reason, the on-premise environment is no longer up and running. It could be a power failure, it could be a fire or flood. It could be a hardware failure. And then you would use the failover option. Let's go ahead and select Failover, and we're going to pretend that we actually have a failover. Here, you'll notice we have our failover direction. Again, we're going from that HyperVvm server to Azure, and then we can go ahead and choose our recovery point. Next, you'll want to shut down the virtual machines and synchronize the latest data. When you're doing a planned failover, you should…

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