Test Failover: Promoting and Restoring a Target Pod

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ActiveDR was specifically designed to make the test of a recovery (or recovery drill) the same operation as an actual recovery.

The overall process of testing is:

  1. The target pod gets promoted while source remains promoted and online (No disruptive to source workload). Refer to Everpure Cloud Dedicated Active DR Guide with Azure VMware Solution.
  2. The Restore-PCBSVmfsDatastore gets executed by passing the name of the target pod or volume names. Refer to Restore a Promoted ActiveDR Pod with AVS
  3. The VMFS datastore(s) gets mounted on the specified AVS cluster. The next step would be registering and powering on the VMs.
    Note:

    In a testing workflow, the source pod stays online and in promotion state. The source pod continues to replicate writes and object changes to the target array--these changes are not reflected in the target pod while it is promoted.