Test failovers should be carried out at least monthly to verify that failover will succeed and that virtual machine workloads will operate as expected after failover

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Property	Details
Operating System	Windows Server 2016
Product/Feature	Hyper-V
Severity	Warning
Category	Operations

In the following sections, italics indicates UI text that appears in the Best Practices Analyzer tool for this 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:

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Resolution

Use Hyper-V Manager to conduct a test failover.