Supported Platforms for Replica Failback
You can use the following hosts as target ones for replica failback:
Failback to Original Location
Source/Target | Target 2008 R2 | Target 2012 | Target 2012 R2 | Target 2016 |
Source 2008 R2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Source 2012 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Source 2012 R2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Source 2016 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Failback to New Location
If a VM replica configuration version is lower than 8.0, you can perform failback to the following hosts:
Source/Target | Target 2008 R2 | Target 2012 | Target 2012 R2 | Target 2016 |
Source 2008 R2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Source 2012 | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Source 2012 R2 | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
Source 2016 | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
If a VM replica configuration version is 8.0, you can perform failback on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 only.