Performing a test failover for an already created replication validates that the workload from the source site replicates correctly in the destination site.
Perform a test failover for an existing replication, then cleanup the test data.
Prerequisites
Before testing failover:
Important:
- Verify that in the destination datastore, at least double the allocated storage of the virtual machine is available for a successful test failover. For information about the storage requirements, see Storage Space Consumption in the Destination.
- Verify that in VMware Cloud Director, the VM discovery option is not activated. For information about deactivating virtual machine discovery, see Discovering and Adopting VMs in the VMware Cloud Director documentation.
- Verify that the replication is already created and the workload is replicated in the destination site. For more information, see Create a protection or Create a migration.
- Verify that you can access VMware Cloud Director Availability as a tenant or as a provider. For more information, see Accessing VMware Cloud Director Availability.
- Verify that for Cloud Director sites, VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.7 or later is deployed in both source and destination sites when backed by VMware Cloud Director for:
- Activating Copy security tags when such apply on the source virtual machine. For information about the tags, see Tags in the NSX documentation and View the Security Tags in Your Organization in the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal in the VMware Cloud Director documentation.
- Pre-selecting the VDC policies when such already apply on the source virtual machine.
Procedure
What to do next
- You can fail over the workload to the destination site. For more information, see Failover of a replication.
- You can perform a failover or edit the replication settings. To no longer protect the workload, you can permanently stop the traffic of this replication, remove the replication and remove all retained replication instances and cleanup any test data, by clicking then confirming the deletion.