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SRM provides users the ability to test their recovery plans in an isolated environment. Testing recovery plans allow customers to test their disaster recovery ability without impacting production applications and replication. The testing of the recovery plans is achieved by leveraging local replication technology provided by the storage arrays.
The storage adapter provided by the vendor has to support the capabilities offered by VMware SRM. The SRDF SRA supports the testing of recovery plans through the use of TimeFinder/SnapVX and TimeFinder/Clone.[29] Additionally, the SRDF SRA offers the ability to perform a test failover without the use of local replication technologies by running the test on the R2/R21 device itself.
This chapter will discuss the following topics related to test failover:
[29] Emulations for TimeFinder/VP Snap and TimeFinder/Mirror are deprecated in Solutions Enabler 10.