This is Blog 8 on VMware Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication. This post will cover testing your Recovery Plans
Current Progress
- Prod and DR Cluster
- Prod and DR Cluster
- 1 host per cluster with vSphere 5.5
- 1 Domain Controller (08R2) per site
- 1 vCenter Virtual Appliance (5.5) per site
- 1 SRM server per site. SQL express is installed on the same server
- SRM servers paired together
- Resources Mappings, Folder Mappings, network Mappings and Placeholder Datastores have been configured
- vSphere Replication has been installed
- VMs have been replicated with vSphere Replication
- Protection Groups and Recovery Plans have been created
- VM Recovery Properties Set
Testing your Recovery Plans
This is one of my favorite features of SRM. You can do non-disruptive testing with the click of a button. Login to SRM and go to your Recovery Plan and select the Test button.
Test Confirmation. You have the option of replicating recent changes to the Recovery Site.
Start the Test
Once the Test has started go to the Recovery Steps Tab. You will be able to watch Step by Step
Once the Test has completed successfully the VMs at the DR site will look like a Running VM
Once you have completed the Test its time for Cleanup
Cleanup Confirmation. I have run into issues where I have had to do a Force Cleanup
Start the Cleanup
Once the Cleanup and Testing has completed you can go over to the History Tab and View or Export the results
The Next Blog will cover the actual Failover.
