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HOL-1883-01: Testing Failover

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Testing Failover

This part of the lab is presented as a Hands-on Labs Interactive Simulation. This will allow you to experience steps which are too time-consuming or resource intensive to do live in the lab environment. In this simulation, you can use the software interface as if you are interacting with a live environment.

The orange boxes show where to click, and the left and right arrow keys can also be used to move through the simulation in either direction.

vCloud Availability allows you to test failover by powering on the replicated VM and connecting it to a test network. This allows you to interact with the VM and make sure it's working without running into problems of having the same VM running in two different places on the same network.

Initiate a Test

Now we're going to test the replicated CentOS VM.

  1. Click the Test button in the vCloud Availability user interface.
  2. Click the scroll bar to scroll down.
  3. Click the Start button to start the test.
  4. Click the scroll bar to scroll down and see the status.
  5. Click the scroll bar to scroll back up.
  6. Click the Home tab to see the status of the workloads.

vCloud Director

Now we're going to look at the running VM in vCloud Director.

  1. Click the vCloud Director tab in the browser.
  2. Click the Refresh icon to see that the CentOS replication target VM is now running.

vSphere Web Client

Look at the vSphere Web Client to see the original production VM is still running.

  1. Click on the vSphere Web Client tab in the browser.
  2. Click on the CentOS VM.
  3. Click on the Summary tab. Note that it's still running.

End the Test

Now that we've run the test and we're satisfited that it's working, we're going to stop the test and clean up.

  1. Click on the vCloud Availability tab in the browser.
  2. Click the Workspaces tab.
  3. Click the CentOS VM.
  4. Click the Cleanup button.
  5. Click the scroll bar to scroll down.
  6. Click the Confirm button.

Check the Cleanup

Go back to vCloud Director to see that the replication target VM is no longer running.

  1. Click the vCloud Director tab in the browser.
  2. Click the Refresh icon to see that the CentOS replication target VM is now stopped.

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