Accepted Solutions
if you run failover then it will shutdown the vm's it is about to recover i.e that are part of that plan, testfailover does NOT do that. obviously with testfailover the default network is a fenced network although you can specify your own "test" network portgroup(s) in the recovery plan, just make sure they don't route back to production site! 
the testfailover workflow is built to allow you to get the logic right in your recovery plan and run the test as many times as you need it to to ensure when you failover for real it works. Note that when we talk about failover and testfailover it is in the context of the recovery plan i.e the way you tell SRM which mode to execute the plan in is simply determined by the button you press...the red one (failover) or the green one (test....actually now a blue button in SRM 5). like everything in SRM you can of course control access to the red button with permissions.
if you run failover then it will shutdown the vm's it is about to recover i.e that are part of that plan, testfailover does NOT do that. obviously with testfailover the default network is a fenced network although you can specify your own "test" network portgroup(s) in the recovery plan, just make sure they don't route back to production site!
the testfailover workflow is built to allow you to get the logic right in your recovery plan and run the test as many times as you need it to to ensure when you failover for real it works. Note that when we talk about failover and testfailover it is in the context of the recovery plan i.e the way you tell SRM which mode to execute the plan in is simply determined by the button you press...the red one (failover) or the green one (test....actually now a blue button in SRM 5). like everything in SRM you can of course control access to the red button with permissions.