Administrator Guide
Test Activating Disaster Recovery
Testing DR activation for a replication restore point creates a test-activated view volume and maps it to the appropriate server
without interrupting service for the original volume. This allows you to make sure that your DR plan is viable.
• Periodically test-activate DR for restore points to ensure their the restore point is viable.
• DR activation settings specied for test activation are retained for future DR activation and test activation.
• Live Volume restore points cannot be tested.
Test DR Activation for Multiple Restore Points
If a pair of Storage Centers host multiple replications, all of the corresponding restore points can be tested simultaneously.
Prerequisites
• The restore points must be associated with replications. Live Volume restore points cannot be tested.
• The destination volume for each replication must be present on the remote Storage Center. If the destination volume for a
replication restore point is missing, it cannot be tested.
• A server must be present at the DR site to perform test activation.
Steps
1. Click the Replications & Live Volumes view.
2. Click the Restore Points tab, then click Test Activate Disaster Recovery. The Test Activate Disaster Recovery wizard
appears.
3. Select the source/destination Storage Center pair for which you want to test-activate DR, then click Next. The wizard
advances to the next page.
4. In the Available Restore Points pane, select the restore points that you want to test, then click Next. The wizard advances to
the next page.
5. Congure DR test-activation settings for each restore point.
a. Select the restore point that you want to modify, then click Edit Settings. The Test Activate Disaster Recovery dialog box
appears.
If the restore point corresponds to a synchronous replication, the dialog box displays additional information about the state
of the replication:
• The Sync Data Status eld displays the synchronization status for the replication at the time the restore point was
validated.
• A recommendation about whether the destination volume is currently synchronized with the source volume is displayed
below the Sync Data Status eld in green or yellow text.
NOTE: For high consistency mode synchronous replications that are current, the Use Active Snapshot check box
is automatically selected.
Storage Center DR Preparation and Activation
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