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title: "Start-VBRHighAvailabilityClusterSwitchover"
description: "Starts switchover of an HA cluster. Product Edition: Premium This cmdlet starts switchover of an HA cluster. During switchover, Veeam Backup & Replication will assign the role of the primary node to the secondary node and will start the reverse repli"
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breadcrumb: "Veeam PowerShell Reference > Veeam PowerShell Reference > High Availability Cluster > Start-VBRHighAvailabilityClusterSwitchover"
dateModified: "2026-08-19"
---

# Start-VBRHighAvailabilityClusterSwitchover

## Short Description
Starts switchover of an HA cluster.

**Product Edition**: Premium

## Syntax
```
Start-VBRHighAvailabilityClusterSwitchover [-RunAsync] [-Force] [<CommonParameters>]
```

## Detailed Description
This cmdlet starts switchover of an HA cluster. During switchover, Veeam Backup & Replication will assign the role of the primary node to the secondary node and will start the reverse replication from a new primary node to the former primary node.

## Parameters

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      <tr style="vertical-align:top">
        <th style="width:20%;">
          <p>Parameter</p>
        </th>
        <th style="width:20%;">
          <p>Description</p>
        </th>
        <th style="width:20%;">
          <p>Type</p>
        </th>
        <th style="width:10%;">
          <p>Required</p>
        </th>
        <th style="width:10%;">
          <p>Position</p>
        </th>
        <th style="width:10%;">
          <p>Accept Pipeline Input</p>
        </th>
      </tr>
      <tr style="vertical-align:top">
        <td>
          <p class="Table_Text_Bold"><span class="Table_Text_Bold">Force</span></p>
        </td>
        <td>
          <p>Defines that the cmdlet will start switchover of a HA cluster without showing warnings in the PowerShell console.</p>
        </td>
        <td style="width:10%;">
          <p><code>SwitchParameter</code></p>
        </td>
        <td style="width:10%;">
          <p>False</p>
        </td>
        <td style="width:10%;">
          <p>Named</p>
        </td>
        <td style="width:10%;">
          <p>False</p>
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr style="vertical-align:top">
        <td>
          <p class="Table_Text_Bold"><span class="Table_Text_Bold">RunAsync</span></p>
        </td>
        <td>
          <p>Defines that the command returns immediately without waiting for the task to complete.</p>
        </td>
        <td style="width:10%;">
          <p><code>SwitchParameter</code></p>
        </td>
        <td style="width:10%;">
          <p>False</p>
        </td>
        <td style="width:10%;">
          <p>Named</p>
        </td>
        <td style="width:10%;">
          <p>False</p>
        </td>
      </tr>
    </table>

`<CommonParameters>`

This cmdlet supports Microsoft PowerShell common parameters. For more information on common parameters, see [ Microsoft Docs](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_commonparameters?view=powershell-7).

## Examples

::: example
### Starting Switchover of HA cluster

This command starts switchover of the HA cluster.

```
Start-VBRHighAvailabilityClusterSwitchover -RunAsync
```

:::