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Table Of Contents
- Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Overview of Site Recovery Manager
- System Requirements
- Installing or Updating Site Recovery Manager
- Managing SRM
- Protected Site Configuration
- Recovery Site Configuration
- Failback
- Alerting and Monitoring
- Protected and Recovery Site Changes
- Preinstallation Checklist
- Failback Checklist
- Use the srm-config command to repair an SRM server connection
- Avoiding Replication of Paging Files and Other Transient Data
- Glossary
- Index
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Chapter 6 Recovery Site Configuration
Test a Recovery Plan
Youcanrunfrequenttests,whichsimulateanactualrecovery.Youcanruntest
recoveriesandedittherecoveryplantofixanyproblemswhenyourunthetests.SRM
runsexactlythesameplanthatisrunforbothtestsandactualrecoverieswiththe
followingexceptions:
Recoverytestsdonotconnecttotheprotectedsiteandshutdownvirtual
machines.
Recoverytestscreatetestnetworkssothattheinfrastructureoftheprotectionand
recoverysiteisprotected.Thetestnetworkisremovedafterthetestiscompleted.
Thisactionensuresthattheinfrastructureofbothsitesisprotected.Youcan,
however,selectanactualnetworktotestrecovery.
Thevirtualmachines
intherecoverysitetypicallystartfromadatastorethatis
clonedfromthetargetdatastoreintherecoverysitetoensurethatthetestisrun
againstastorageinfrastructurethatisisolatedfromtheproductionenvironment.
Totestarecoveryplan,thefollowingconditionsmustbeinplace:
TheVIClientmustbeconnectedtotherecoverysite.
TheroleofRecoveryPlansAdministrator.
To test a recovery plan
1Inthenavigationbar,selecttheplantotest.
2OntheSummarytab,clickTestRecoveryPlan.
3ClickContinuetocontinuetherecoverytest.
IntheRecentTasksareaofthepage(ifitis open),RunTestModeRecoveryPlan
appearsinthe
Namefield,andtheStatusfielddisplaysthepercentagecomplete.
Pausing, Resuming, or Cancelling a Test
Youcanpause,resume,orcancelarecoveryplantestatanytime.Whenyoupauseor
cancelatest,nonewstepsarestarted,andin‐progressstepsaresubjecttothefollowing
rules:
Stepsthatcannotbestopped,suchaspoweringonorwaitingforaheartbeat,run
tocompletionbeforethepauseorcancellationcompletes.
Stepsthataddorremovestoragedevicesareundonebycleanupoperationsifyou
cancelorbysubsequentstepsifyoupauseandresume.