You can perform a test failover operation to validate failover operations for a group of VMs.
For VMware destinations, a test failover operation live-mounts replicated VMs that are part of a failover group on the DR site. For Amazon and Azure destinations, a test failover operation clones replicated VMs that are part of a failover group on the DR site.
Test failover is supported only for Amazon, Azure, and VMware destinations.
Before You Begin
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Create a recovery target that includes virtual lab options.
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Create a failover group that identifies the VMs to be included. The failover group must specify a replication target that supports test failover operations.
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Verify that the failover group status is In Sync.
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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
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From the navigation pane, go to Disaster recovery > Replication.
The Replication groups page appears.
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On the Failover groups tab, in the Name column, click a failover group.
The failover group page appears.
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In the top-right area of the page, click Test failover.
A message appears and asks you whether you want to test the failover.
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Click Yes.
Result
When the test failover operation completes successfully, the users who were configured to receive notifications for failovers receives an email notification that provides a summary of the test failover operation and a link that can be used to access the failover group.