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Perform a Cold Disaster Recovery Test

Note: Riverbed changed the product name from Whitewater to SteelStore. Their documentation names may not reflect this change.

This topic provides an overview of the Whitewater Cloud Storage Appliance User's Guide procedure for disaster recovery, but includes considerations. Because the Riverbed instructions may change with new releases, we recommend following the steps that are outlined in the Riverbed Whitewater documentation.

Test the disaster recovery of your appliances. Practicing the recovery process allows you to review procedures and policies and ensures that you are well-prepared for any unplanned outage.

Note: When you perform this test, the Whitewater Cloud Storage Appliance User's Guide instructs you to suspend replication to the cloud. This suspension simulates the loss of the primary appliance. After you complete the secondary appliance testing, unsuspend replication to ensure that the Virtual Volumes data resume replication to the cloud.

Follow these steps:

1. Suspend the replication to the cloud from the primary appliance.
2. Follow the procedures in the Whitewater Appliance User's Guide to import the primary SteelStore appliance configuration file into the secondary SteelStore appliance. Before starting the import, verify that the Import shared data only check box is selected.

   Important! Once the import process completes, the SteelStore system may display a prompt to restart the storage optimization service. Do not restart the storage optimization service.

3. Use SSH to connect to the SteelStore appliance command-line interface.
4. To perform replication recovery testing of the appliance, issue the following commands:

   whitewater > enable
   whitewater # configure terminal
   whitewater # no service enable
   whitewater # datastore format local
   whitewater # replication dr -test enable
   whitewater # service enable
   whitewater # show service
   

   Note: Riverbed changed the product name from Whitewater to SteelStore. The commands are customizable and may not reflect this change. For more information about these commands, see the Whitewater Cloud Storage Appliance Command-Line Interface Reference Manual.