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Failover to Another Host

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Hi;

I have been working on Disaster Recovery Scenario, I have two host, Host1, Host2. Host 2 have two Virtual machines and two replica of this machines. Rep1, Rep2. When Host 2 is corrupt can I failover Rep2 on Host1, is this possible. I don't success this, I get error. Thanks...
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Re: Failover to Another Host

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Hi,

First of all, why to keep VMs and their replicas on the same host? To be able to failover to Host 1 you should setup replication job to replicate VMs from Host 2 to Host 1, otherwise if Host 2 fails the replicas will die as well.
I don't success this, I get error.
What kind of error did you get? Please describe all actions that you've performed, step by step.

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Re: Failover to Another Host

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When Host 2 is corrupt can I failover Rep2 on Host1, is this possible
Nope, you cannot do that, since corrupted host contains both original VM and its replica. Thanks.
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Hi,

I understand what you means. When I differ original vm and replica vm locations it worked. Thanks...
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Re: Failover to Another Host

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That's the recommend setup, indeed. Glad that you've figured that out.
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