Hi
We are running Server 2012 (not R2) Hyper-V environment and have a question about testing Replication.
I have a problem where I have a very large snapshot on our SQL Server. I made a thread about it (which was answered) here, but on going to delete the snapshot realised that there was no delete option. Upon further investigation I noticed that the snapshot was the "initial replication snapshot" from when I set up Hyper-V replica back in January 2014.
I have concocted a plan to merge this snapshot with the original VHD (for the OS) and simply create new VHDs for the database and logs files and copy the files across to them.
Before I do this I want to test Replica has been working OK (Replication appears normal in Hyper-V Manager) by doing a test failover and checking that I can access the databases OK.
Is there any reason that the replica server may have been affected by the initial replica snapshot not being deleted and can anyone think of any reason why I should not do a test failover in such circumstances?
Many thanks