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This article is intended to provide more information about a specific issue that can be identified by running a Best Practices Analyzer scan for Hyper-V. It also can be used without running a scan, as general troubleshooting and best practice information to help you configure your server appropriately. If you have troubleshooting steps or information that would improve this article, please add it. For instructions on how to edit a TechNet Wiki article, see Wiki: How to Use the Editor.

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Operating System

Windows Server 2012

Product/Feature

Hyper-V

Severity

Category

Note: The following sections provide details about the specific issue. Italics indicates UI text that appears in the Best Practices Analyzer tool for the specific issue.

Issue

There has been no test failover in at least one month.

Impact

There is no confirmation that a planned or unplanned failover will succeed or workload operations will continue properly after a failover. This impacts the following virtual machines: <list of virtual machines>

Resolution

Use Hyper-V Manager to conduct a test failover.

Additional references