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Test virtual machine failover

Test virtual machine failover - Hyper-V Tutorial

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Test virtual machine failover

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- [Instructor] So now let's go ahead and take a look at what happens in a failover situation. As you can see, I've got the Failover Cluster Manager on screen, and I've got two virtual machines. I've got one called HA and I've got another called Windows Server 2025. And if you look at the Owner Node column, you can see where they're currently running. So the Windows Server 2025 virtual machine is running on Hyper-V-1 and the HA virtual machine is running on Hyper-V-3. So what happens if we have a node failure? To show you, I want to go ahead and take Hyper-V-3 offline. Now I'm not going to shut it down gracefully. Instead, I'm just going to abruptly power it off so that we can see what happens. Now the important thing to know is that a failover will eventually occur. However, that failover is not instantaneous. It takes a few minutes to complete. And the reason for that is really simple. Think about what your virtual machines are doing. They're using the cluster shared volume and that…

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