Scheduling Planned Failovers and Test Boots

After you create a failover group, you can edit the group to add schedules for planned failovers or test boots.

Before You Begin

For VMware destination sites: To perform failover, test boot, and failback operations for VMware destination sites, VMware tools must be installed on the source VMs before replicating the VMs.

Procedure

  1. From the navigation pane, click Configuration > Replication.

    The Replication page appears.

  2. Click Failover groups.

    The Failover groups page appears.

  3. In the Name column, click a failover group.

    The failover group page appears.

  4. To create a recurring schedule for planned failovers, in the Planned failover schedules section, click Add schedule.

  5. For Hyper-V and VMware destinations: To create a recurring schedule for test boots of the VMs in the DR site, in the Test boot schedules section, click Add schedule.

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