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6 Click Next.
7 Review the summary information and click Finish to make the specified changes to the recovery plan.
You can monitor the update of the plan in the Recent Tasks view.
Suspend Virtual Machines When a Recovery Plan Runs
SRM can suspend virtual machines on the recovery site during a recovery and a test recovery.
Suspending virtual machines on the recovery site is useful in active-active datacenter environments and
where non-critical workloads run on recovery sites. By suspending any virtual machines that host non-
critical workloads on the recovery site, SRM frees capacity for the recovered virtual machines.
You can only add virtual machines to suspend at the recovery site. To suspend virtual machines at both the
protected and recovery sites, you must perform a recovery and then reverse protection by performing a
reprotect operation before you can add virtual machines to suspend at the original protected site. If you
configure virtual machines to suspend at both sites, the plan starts virtual machines at one site and suspends
them at the other with each recovery that you run.
Procedure
1 On the recovery site, click Recovery Plans in the left pane and select the recovery plan to edit.
2 Click the Recovery Steps tab and click Add Non-Critical VM.
3 Expand the hierarchical list to select virtual machines on the recovery site to suspend during a recovery.
4 Click OK.
SRM suspends the virtual machines on the recovery site when the recovery plan runs.
Test a Recovery Plan
When you test a recovery plan, SRM runs the recovery plan on a test network and a temporary snapshot of
replicated data at the recovery site. SRM does not disrupt operations at the protected site.
Testing a recovery plan runs all the steps in the plan with the exception of powering down virtual machines
at the protected site and forcing devices at the recovery site to assume mastership of replicated data. If the
plan requires the suspension of local virtual machines at the recovery site, SRM suspends those virtual
machines during the test. Running a test of a recovery plan makes no other changes to the production
environment at either site.
Procedure
1 Click Recovery Plans in the SRM interface.
2 Select the recovery plan to test, and click Test.
3 (Optional) Select Replicate recent changes to recovery site.
Selecting this option ensures that the recovery site has the latest copy of protected virtual machines, but
the synchronization might take more time.
4 Click Next.
5 Review the test information and click Start.
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