Hi, How to set failover to manually in Windows 2019 File Cluster? I want to control the failover temporary for testing purpose. Thanks

Hi, Thank you for posting the question to Q&A forum. If you would like to manually test the failover of file server service from one node to another, please follow below steps. Failover Cluster Manager>Expand the cluster>Click "Roles">Right click the file server role>Click "Move">Click "Select Node">Choose another node as the destination. If you would like to manually failover all resources from one node to another, please follow below steps. Failover Cluster Manager>Click Nodes>Right-click on one node you want to clear of resource>Select Pause>Drain roles. For your reference: Test the Failover of a Clustered Service or Application Steps for manual failover on a cluster Thanks， ---------- If the Answer is helpful, please click "Accept Answer" and upvote it. Thanks.

You can always do a manual failover of cluster group or roles from one node to another, the steps are not complicated. Check the below article with simple steps to do manual failover. https://www.dbsection.com/how-to-failover-cluster-from-one-node-to-another/

How to set failover to manually in Windows 2019 File Cluster?

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Eleven Yu (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 10,726 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2021-08-02T02:34:25.51+00:00

Hi,

Thank you for posting the question to Q&A forum.

If you would like to manually test the failover of file server service from one node to another, please follow below steps.
Failover Cluster Manager>Expand the cluster>Click "Roles">Right click the file server role>Click "Move">Click "Select Node">Choose another node as the destination.

If you would like to manually failover all resources from one node to another, please follow below steps.
Failover Cluster Manager>Click Nodes>Right-click on one node you want to clear of resource>Select Pause>Drain roles.

For your reference:
Test the Failover of a Clustered Service or Application
Steps for manual failover on a cluster

Thanks，

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Samath 121 Reputation points

2021-08-02T03:01:43.137+00:00

Thanks but what Drain roles means?

Eleven Yu (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 10,726 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2021-08-02T03:41:03.883+00:00

That means stopped and moved all the roles (services and resources) on this node to other nodes.
You can also move all the roles back to this node later.

Eleven Yu (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 10,726 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2021-08-02T03:42:09.597+00:00

It will be much appreciated and encouraged if you could click "Accept Answer" and upvote the helpful reply.

Samath 121 Reputation points

2021-08-02T04:58:24.59+00:00

But why we should click on Resume/Fail Roles Back later if by pausing it then roles should not be moved to another node?

Eleven Yu (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 10,726 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2021-08-02T05:43:43.517+00:00

Sorry, I do not understand your question well.

When you pause the node and do not drain roles, the roles will not be moved to another node. You can Resume it (Fail roles back or do not fail roles back has no difference).
When you pause the node and drain roles, the roles will be moved to another node. You can resume the node with roles back (Fail Roles back) or without roles back (Do not fail roles back). If you do not fail roles back but only resume the node, it will be a backup node in case another node goes down.

You can do tests by yourself and check the Owner Node status.
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