# Testing Failover

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 destination site. For Amazon, Azure, and Nutanix 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, Google Cloud, Nutanix, VMware, and VMware Cloud Director destinations.

## Before You Begin

- Create a recovery target that includes virtual lab options.

- Create a failover group that identifies the VMs to be included. The failover group must specify a replication target that supports test failover operations.

- Verify that the failover group status is In Sync.

- Make sure you have Application validation for VMware vSphere VMs that you want to test and verify.

- Make sure Warm site recovery is enabled for the VM group that you want to test and verify.

- 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 Command Center navigation pane, go to Secure > Auto recovery > Failover groups.

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

   The failover group page appears.

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

   A message appears and asks you whether you want to test the failover.

4. Click Yes.

## Results

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.

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