Permament failover

[champ_]

Hi,

I noticed that one of my colleagues did a failover on one of our vm´s. After the VM had been failovered i did a quick migration of the vm frpm one datastore to another, I did not now about the failover. My question now is if it´s safe to to a permament failover after doing the quickmigration.

Regards

Roger

[DGrinev]

Hi Roger,

The permanent failover should be safe if the reference ID of the VM is the same after the migration. Thanks!

[champ_]

I guess I´m gonna lose connectivity (ping) to the vm when i perform the permanent failover since it´s going to remove all the snapshots? correct?

Regards

Roger

[DGrinev]

Nope, no connectivity losses expected, but short VM stuns are typical for snapshot commits.
Permanent failover operation initiates snapshot consolidation with the data from the delta file and removes the rest snapshots. Thanks!