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. Before setting up a fire drill for an application service group, make sure you have added the HTC resource to the service group.

A fire drill is performed at the secondary site. The initial steps involve configuring a fire drill service group, which is identical to the application service group, but uses HTCSnap, a fire drill resource, in place of the HTC 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 at the secondary site demonstrates the ability of the application service group to come online when a failover occurs.

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