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Perform Full System Assured Recovery Testing

You can perform Assured Recovery Testing for Full System HA scenarios manually or automatically.

Follow these steps:

1. Open the RHA Manager and navigate to the cascade scenario that you created.
2. Right-click one of the additional replicas that you created and click Replica Integrity Testing.

   The replica Integrity Testing for Assured Recovery dialog opens.

   (Optional) Manual Testing

   Runs the AR testing in the manual mode.

   (Optional) Start testing when all journals are applied

   Runs the AR testing only when all journals are applied. If you do not select this option, Arcserve RHA performs the AR testing immediately even before all journals are applied.

3. Click OK.

The AR testing starts.

Note: You can simultaneously run AR testing for multiple replicas.

You can monitor the status of AR testing on the Events pane. After the AR testing is successful, you can perform switchover.

During AR Testing, the software suspends journal application, creates a VM with the virtual hard disk file and a snapshot to save possible changes, then starts the VM. If you chose automatic AR testing, VMware tools are installed. Wait for the software to stop the test. If you chose manual, you'll need to stop the AR test manually.

Once stopped, the software resumes applying journal changes.

For more information, see the section, Assured Recovery Testing, in the Arcserve RHA Administration Guide.