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After you have configured SRM at the protected and recovery sites, you can test your recovery plan without
affecting services at either site. You can also run a recovery plan and, if necessary, configure the two sites for
failback so that you can restore services at the protected site.
SRM makes it
easy to test a recovery plan. The test does not disrupt replication or any ongoing activities at the
protected site. Recovery plans that suspend local virtual machines do so for tests as well as for actual recoveries.
With this exception, recovery plan tests do not disrupt activities at either site.
NOTE Permission to test a recovery plan does not include permission to run a recovery plan. Permission to
run a recovery plan does not include permission to test a recovery plan. Each permission must be assigned
separately.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Test a Recovery Plan,” on page 41
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“Run a Recovery Plan,” on page 42
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“Configuring and Executing Failback,” on page 43
Test a Recovery Plan
When you test
a recovery plan, you use a test network and a temporary copy of replicated data at the recovery
site. No operations are disrupted 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
requests suspension of local virtual machines at the recovery site, they are suspended during the test recovery.
A test recovery makes no other changes to the production environment at either site.
Procedure
1 Open a vSphere Client and connect to the vCenter server at the recovery site.
Log in as a user who has permission to test a recovery plan.
2 On the vSphere Client Home page, click the Site Recovery icon.
3 In the Site Recovery tree view, expand the Recovery Plans icon and click the recovery plan that you want
to test.
4 In the Commands area of the Summary window, click Test Recovery Plan.
At the confirmation prompt, click Yes to proceed with the test.
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