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which provides automated sub-LUN tiering for virtual machines without interfering with SRM protection
groups.
6.5 Creating recovery plans
When testing or running recovery plans, SRM does not have integrated mechanisms to determine whether
the replication volumes are fully synced before the storage is prepared for recovery. In other words, there may
be in-flight data that is actively replicated to the secondary site influencing the outcome of the recovery. This
will be true if you configure replication to also replicate the active snapshot (replay).
As a best practice, check Replicate recent changes to recovery site when running a test plan to help
ensure that all data is successfully replicated to the secondary site. During an actual disaster recovery
cutover, this option may or may not be available. For planned migrations using SRM, this step is required in
order to proceed.
Replicate recent changes to recovery site during test plans
Another best practice to further automate DR failover or planned migration may be to add prompts or SRM
server-side commands to the recovery plan to help ensure that all the data has been replicated before the
subsequent storage section is executed.