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 into a test recovery environment. 

A failover test 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.