Testing a recovery plan with SRM vSphere Replication is possible ?

[philippeletreul]

Hello,

Is it possible to test SRM recovery plan with vSphere replication (like Array based replication)  ?

If yes, How it works ?

The vsphere replication is automatically stopped, and after the VMs replicas are invertoried and the VMs started  or something else ?

Thanks for your answers

Regards

Philippe

[mattandes]

Yes it is possible to test a recovery plan with using vSphere replication(at least with the latest couple versions). It will work the same as array base replication as far as leaving your production systems running and starting up the VMs at the recovery site on an isolated network. Once it's done, you'll be able to run the clean up to put it back to the way it was before the test.

-Matt

[sandeepdeswal]

It’s pretty much same procedure in case of VR as well, you can refer the VMware videos available at http://vmwarelearning.com/srm/

[philippeletreul]

Is it the  replication automatically stopped when the DR test ? how the VM replicas become read/write ?

[mvalkanov]

Hi,

Replication continues independent of the test failover.

The test failover virtual machine uses redo logs on top of the base replica disks.

Replication continues on other redo logs and when test cleanup is performed, these are consolidated with the base replica disks.

Regards,

Martin

[philippeletreul]

Thks to all

Regards

Philippe

[kwerneburg]

Also creates an independent subdirectory within the folder of the VMs being tested to hold the redo logs to keep them unique and independent of anything that may happen in the primary folder.