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title: Run an Azure VM disaster recovery drill with Azure Site Recovery
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description: Learn how to run a disaster recovery drill to a secondary region for Azure VMs using the Azure Site Recovery service.
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services: site-recovery
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author: rayne-wiselman
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manager: carmonm
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ms.service: site-recovery
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ms.topic: tutorial
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ms.date: 11/14/2019
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ms.author: raynew
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ms.date: 01/16/2020
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ms.custom: mvc
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# Run a disaster recovery drill to a secondary region for Azure VMs
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# Run a disaster recovery drill to a secondary region for Azure VMs
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The [Azure Site Recovery](site-recovery-overview.md) service contributes to your business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategy by keeping your business apps up and running available during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery manages and orchestrates disaster recovery of on-premises machines and Azure virtual machines (VMs), including replication, failover, and recovery.
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> * Run a test failover for a single VM
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> [!NOTE]
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> This tutorial helps you to perform a DR drill with minimal steps; in case you want to learn more about the various aspects associated with performing a DR drill, including networking considerations, automation or troubleshooting, refer to the documents under 'How To' for Azure VMs.
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> This tutorial helps you to perform a disaster recovery drill with minimal steps. To learn more about the various functions related to doing a disaster recovery drill, see the documentation for Azure VMs [replication](azure-to-azure-how-to-enable-replication.md), [networking](azure-to-azure-about-networking.md), [automation](azure-to-azure-powershell.md), or [troubleshooting](azure-to-azure-troubleshoot-errors.md).
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## Prerequisites
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- Before you run a test failover, we recommend that you verify the VM properties to make sure everything's as expected. Access the VM properties in **Replicated items**. The **Essentials** blade shows information about machines settings and status.
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- **We recommend you use a separate Azure VM network for the test failover**, and not the default network that was set up when you enabled replication.
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- Depending on your source networking configurations for each NIC, you can optionally specify **subnet, IP address, Public IP, Network Security Group or Internal Load Balancer** to attach to each NIC under test failover settings in Compute & Network prior to conducting DR drill.
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Check the following items before you do this tutorial:
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- Before you run a test failover, we recommend that you check the VM's properties to make sure it's configured for disaster recovery. Go to the VM's **Operations** > **Disaster Recovery** > **Properties** to view the replication and failover properties.
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- **We recommend you use a separate Azure VM network for the test failover**, and not the default network that was set up when you enabled replication.
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- Depending on your source networking configurations for each NIC, you can specify **Subnet**, **Private IP address**, **Public IP**, **Network security group**, or **Load balancer** to attach to each NIC under test failover settings in **Compute and Network** before doing a disaster recovery drill.
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## Run a test failover
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1. In **Settings** > **Replicated Items**, click the VM **+Test Failover** icon.
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This example shows how to use a Recovery Services vault to do a VM test failover.
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2. In **Test Failover**, Select a recovery point to use for the failover:
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- **Latest**: Processes all the data in Site Recovery and provides the lowest RTO (Recovery Time Objective).
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- **Latest processed**: Fails the VM over to the latest recovery point that was processed by Site Recovery. The time stamp is shown. With this option, no time is spent processing
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data, so it provides a low RTO (Recovery Time Objective)
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1. Select a vault and go to **Protected items** > **Replicated items** and select a VM.
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1. In **Test Failover**, select a recovery point to use for the failover:
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- **Latest**: Processes all the data in Site Recovery and provides the lowest RTO (Recovery Time Objective).
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- **Latest processed**: Fails the VM over to the latest recovery point that was processed by Site Recovery. The time stamp is shown. With this option, no time is spent processing data, so it provides a low RTO.
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- **Latest app-consistent**: This option fails over all VMs to the latest app-consistent recovery point. The time stamp is shown.
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- **Custom**: Fail over to particular recovery point. Custom is only available when you fail over a single VM, and not for failover with a recovery plan.
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1. Select the target Azure virtual network that Azure VMs in the secondary region will connect to after the failover.
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3. Select the target Azure virtual network to which Azure VMs in the secondary region will be
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connected, after the failover occurs.
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> [!NOTE]
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> Dropdown to select Azure virtual network will not be visible if the test failover settings are pre-configured for the replicated item.
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> [!NOTE]
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> If the test failover settings are pre-configured for the replicated item, the dropdown menu to select an Azure virtual network isn't visible.
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4. To start the failover, click **OK**. To track progress, click the VM to open its properties. Or,
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you can click the **Test Failover** job in the vault name > **Settings** > **Jobs** > **Site
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Recovery jobs**.
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5. After the failover finishes, the replica Azure VM appears in the Azure portal > **Virtual
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Machines**. Make sure that the VM is running, sized appropriately, and connected to the
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6. To delete the VMs that were created during the test failover, click **Cleanup test failover** on
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the replicated item or the recovery plan. In **Notes**, record and save any observations
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1. To start the failover, select **OK**. To track the progress from the vault, go to **Monitoring** > **Site Recovery jobs** and select the **Test Failover** job.
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1. After the failover finishes, the replica Azure VM appears in the Azure portal's **Virtual Machines**. Make sure that the VM is running, sized appropriately, and connected to the appropriate network.
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1. To delete the VMs that were created during the test failover, select **Cleanup test failover** on the replicated item or the recovery plan. In **Notes**, record and save any observations associated with the test failover.
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## Next steps
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