If you are using vSphere Replication without SRM on top of it, Test Recovery is not available. The process you could follow in case you would like to keep your primary site online: 1) Perform ...
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If you are using vSphere Replication without SRM on top of it, Test Recovery is not available. The process you could follow in case you would like to keep your primary site online: 1) Perform Recovery using the second option (Recover with latest available data). In this way you would not need to power off source VMs and your primary site will be online. 2) After recovery is complete, stop the replications (which will be in Recovered state) 3) Power off recovered VMs, unregister them from VC inventory, but keep the disk files intact. 4) Manually configure all replications using the disks that were left over as initial seeds. This will cause only changes to be synced. To ease step 4, you could use vSphere Replication multi-vm configuration wizard. Just make sure that on the target datastore each disk that will be used as initial copy is put in the folder with VM name. Then, you could try to configure all VMs at once, performing searching for seeds and confirming to use them.