Setting Up a Fire Drill

A fire drill procedure verifies the fault-readiness of a disaster recovery configuration. This procedure is done without stopping the application at the primary site and disrupting user access.

A fire drill is performed at the secondary site. The initial steps involve configuring a service group identical to the application service group and replacing the SRDF resource with the SRDFSnap resource, a fire drill resource. The fire drill service group uses a copy of the data used by the application service group.

Bringing the fire drill service group online demonstrates the ability of the application service group to come online at the remote site when a failover occurs.

VCS supports several fire drill configurations and provides the SRDFSnap agent to manage the replication relationships during a fire drill. The Fire Drill Configuration wizard configures the fire drill service group.