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Syncro CS 9286-8e Solution User Guide
November 2014

Chapter 4: System Administration

Understanding Failover Operations

4.2.1.2

Planned Failover in Windows Server 2008 R2

Follow these steps to perform a planned failover on a Syncro CS 9286-8e system running Windows Server 2008 R2.

1.

Create a backup of the data on the Syncro CS 9286-8e system.

2.

Open the Failover Cluster Manager, as shown in the following figure.

Figure

42 Failover Cluster Manager

3.

In the left panel, expand the tree to display the disks, as shown in the following figure.

Figure

43

Expand

Tree

4.

Right-click on the entry in the Assigned To column in the center panel of the window.

5.

On the pop-up menu, select Move > Select Node, as shown in the following figure.

6.

Select the node for the planned failover.