13.7 PlateSpin Failover

When the PlateSpin failover operation is complete and the virtual one-node cluster comes online, you see a multi-node cluster with one active node (all other nodes are unavailable).

To perform a PlateSpin failover (or to test the PlateSpin failover on) a Windows cluster, the cluster must be able to connect to a domain controller. To leverage the test failover functionality, you need to protect the domain controller along with the cluster. During the test, bring up the domain controller, followed by the Windows cluster workload (on an isolated network).