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6 Click the Recovery Steps tab to monitor the progress of the test and respond to messages.
The Recovery Steps tab displays the progress of individual steps. The Summary tab reports the
progress of the overall plan.
NOTE SRM initiates recovery steps in the prescribed order, with one exception. It does not wait for the
Prepare Storage step to finish for all protection groups before continuing to the next steps.
What to do next
Run a cleanup operation after the recovery plan test finishes to restore the recovery plan to its original state
from before the test.
Clean Up After Testing a Recovery Plan
After you test a recovery plan, you can return the recovery plan to the Ready state by running a cleanup
operation.
SRM performs several cleanup operations after a test.
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Powers off the recovered virtual machines.
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Replaces recovered virtual machines with placeholders, preserving their identity and configuration
information.
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Cleans up replicated storage snapshots that the recovered virtual machines used during the test.
Prerequisites
Verify that you tested a recovery plan.
Procedure
1 Click Recovery Plans in the SRM interface, select the recovery plan that you tested, and click Cleanup.
2 Review the cleanup information and click Next.
3 Click Start.
4 After the cleanup finishes, if it reports errors, run the cleanup again, selecting the Force Cleanup
option.
The Force Cleanup option forces the removal of virtual machines, ignoring any errors, and returns the
plan to the Ready state. If necessary, run cleanup several times with the Force Cleanup option, until the
cleanup succeeds.
Run a Recovery Plan
When you run a recovery plan, SRM migrates all virtual machines in the recovery plan to the recovery site.
SRM attempts to shut down the corresponding virtual machines on the protected site.
CAUTION A recovery plan makes significant alterations in the configurations of the protected and recovery
sites and it stops replication. Do not run any recovery plan that you have not tested. In the case of array-
based replication, recovered virtual machines and services might need to be supported at the recovery site
for a period of time. Reversing these changes might cost significant time and effort and can result in
prolonged service downtime.
Prerequisites
To use forced recovery, you must first enable this function. You enable forced recovery by enabling the
recovery.forceRecovery setting as described in “Change Recovery Settings,” on page 85.
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