Differences Between
Testing and Running a Recovery PlanLast Updated January 30, 2025
Testing a recovery
plan has no lasting effects on either the protected site or the recovery site,
but running a recovery plan has significant effects on both sites.
You need different privileges
when testing and running a recovery plan.
Area of Difference
| Test a Recovery Plan
| Run a Recovery Plan
|
|---|---|---|
Required privileges
| Requires
permission.
| Requires
permission.
|
Effect on virtual machines at the protected
site
| None
| Site
Recovery Manager shuts down virtual machines in reverse priority
order and restores any virtual machines that are suspended at the protected
site.
|
Effect on virtual machines at the recovery
site
| If the recovery plan
requires it,
Site
Recovery Manager suspends local virtual machines.
Site
Recovery Manager restarts suspended virtual machines after cleaning up the
test.
| If the recovery plan
requires it,
Site
Recovery Manager suspends local virtual machines.
|
Effect on replication
| Site
Recovery Manager creates temporary snapshots of replicated
storage at the recovery site. For array-based replication,
Site
Recovery Manager rescans the arrays to discover them.
| During a planned
migration,
Site
Recovery Manager synchronizes replicated datastores, then stops
replication, then makes the target devices at the recovery site writable.
During a disaster recovery,
Site
Recovery Manager attempts the same steps, but if they do not succeed,
Site
Recovery Manager ignores protected site errors.
|
Network
| If you explicitly assign
test networks,
Site
Recovery Manager connects recovered virtual machines to a test network. If
the virtual machine network assignment is
Isolated network (auto created)
and there are no site-level mappings,
Site
Recovery Manager assigns virtual machines to temporary networks that are
not connected to any physical network.
| Site
Recovery Manager connects recovered virtual machines to the
user-specified data center network.
|
Interruption of recovery plan
| You can cancel a test at
any time.
| You can cancel the
recovery at any time.
|