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Testing a recovery plan
36 Dell EMC SC Series: VMware Site Recovery Manager Best Practices | 2007-M-BP-V
7 Testing a recovery plan
Testing the recovery plan is not disruptive to the storage replications, production volumes, and VMs because
the test recoveries use SC Series view volumes created from snapshots (replays) when running the recovery
plan tests. This means that when testing a recovery plan, any tests, changes, or updates can be performed
on the recovered virtual machines because they will be discarded when the test recovery plan cleanup takes
place. While the test plan is executing, production virtual machines and replication continues to run normally
without interruption.
To test a disaster recovery plan, right-click the recovery plan, and select Test.
When choosing to run a planned migration or disaster recovery plan (as opposed to running a test), keep in
mind this procedure is disruptive and results in virtual machines being powered off at the primary site,
replication mirrors being broken, and virtual machines being recovered at the secondary site.
In the event of a disaster or planned migration, right-click the recovery plan and select Run.