# Testing Failover for a Periodic Replication Group

You can perform a test failover operation to validate failover operations for a replication group.

For VMware destinations, a test failover operation live-mounts replicated VMs that are part of a replication group on the destination site. For Amazon and Azure destinations, a test failover operation clones replicated VMs that are part of a failover group on the destination site.

Test failover is supported only for Amazon, Azure, Azure Local, Hyper-V, and VMware destinations.

## Before You Begin

For VMware, before performing a test failover operation, review the Test Failover Options section in the replication group settings. You can use these options to configure an isolated network.

## Procedure

1. From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Secure > Auto recovery > Replication groups.

   The Replication groups page appears.

2. Under Group name, click a replication group.

   The Overview tab of the replication group page appears.

3. In the upper-right area of the page, click Failover, and then select Test failover.

   The Test failover dialog box appears.

4. From the Recovery point list, select a recovery point.

5. In the hours box, enter the expiration time for a newly failover VM that will be created.

6. Click Yes.

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