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Failing over using the Full-Server Failover Manager
When a failover condition is met, you will want to start failover. Additionally, you can start
it without a failover condition, as long as protection is enabled. For example, you may
want to force failover when upgrading to a better source server.
1. To start failover, click Failover.
2. If Storage Mirroring Recover determines there is a possibility that the data on the
target is incomplete, you will be warned before failover begins. If you proceed with
failover, the state of the source will be unknown until failover is complete. The best
case scenario would be a missing data file, while the worst case scenario would
be missing system state data that causes the server to be unusable or unbootable.
Select your failover options.
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Shutdown source server if running—If the source is still running, Full-
Server Failover Manager can stop it. Although, if Full-Server Failover
Manager cannot communicate with the source, the shutdown command will
fail. This option prevents network conflicts in those cases where the source
and target are still both running and communicating, such as a forced
failover.
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Use live data—Select this option to use the data on the target at the time of
failover.