Test Fault Tolerance Failover in the vSphere Client

You can induce a failover situation for a selected Primary VM to test your Fault Tolerance protection.

Before you begin

Launch the vSphere Client and log in to a vCenter Server system.

About this task

This option is unavailable (grayed out) if the virtual machine is powered off.

Procedure

In the vSphere Client, select the Hosts & Clusters view.
Right-click the fault tolerant virtual machine and select Fault Tolerance > Test Failover.

Results

This task induces failure of the Primary VM to ensure that the Secondary VM replaces it. A new Secondary VM is also started placing the Primary VM back in a Protected state.