Use the planned failover procedure to switch the roles of the production and failover server when both production and recovery servers are available.Use the Steps portlet to begin the automated planned failover process for 2-node clustered replication groups.
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Select Run on the Action toolbar on the Steps portlet.
Note: The Run Planned Failover Procedure dialog displays. This is the only dialog displayed when running a Planned Failover procedure for a 2-node clustered replication group. All the steps are run continuously, without user interaction. -
Click OK to start the planned failover procedure.
After the procedure completes successfully, the replication starts from the new production server to the new recovery server. When you are ready to move the production server back to the configured production server, run the Failback procedure. See Failback for 2-node clustered replication groups.