Automated test failover
With automated test failover, the recovery server is tested automatically once a month without any manual interaction.
The automated test failover process consists of the following parts:
- creating a virtual machine from the last recovery point
- taking a screenshot of the virtual machine
- analyzing if the operating system of the virtual machine starts successfully
- notifying you about the test failover status
Automated test failover consumes compute points.
You can configure the automated test failover in the recovery server's settings. For more information, see Configuring automated test failover.
Note that, in very rare cases, automated test failover might be skipped and might not be performed at the scheduled time. This is because production failover has higher priority than automated test failover, so the hardware resources (CPU and RAM) allocated for automated test failover might be temporarily limited to ensure that there are enough resources for a concurrent production failover.
If automated test failover is skipped for some reason, an alert will be raised.
Automated test failover will fail if the backups of the original machine are encrypted by using encryption as a machine property, and the encryption password is not specified when creating the recovery server. For more information about specifying the encryption password, see Creating a recovery server.