Getting ready

Before performing a failover, test your failover plan to validate your DR strategy without any downtime. ASR enables you to run a test failover without any data loss. You can run a test failover for a single VM or for a recovery plan.

In order to test your failover plan, you will need to determine the network settings to use for the replica VM(s). When performing a test failover, you have the option of testing to a non-production network on a recovery site (recommended) or testing to a production network on a recovery site. You can run a test failover to a secondary site:

STEP-BY-STEP: The following detailed Microsoft article provides detailed guidance on planning your infrastructure for failover testing, using an on-premises ...

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