To verify the failover configuration and infrastructure, a test failover operation can be performed to observe recovery of virtual machines and their data from the object store to a test recovery environment.

A test failover resembles an actual failover, with a few key differences:

  • The VMs will continue to operate in the protected environment, so there will be no interruption to their normal ongoing operation or protection.
  • During testing, data is replicated across the system as it would happen with normal failover; however, ownership of the protected domain is never passed to the recovery site. Furthermore, the test VMs and data will be deleted from the system at the conclusion of the test.


Configure the test failover recovery site

Perform a test failover