Manually turn on replicas?

[csinetops]

I need some input on how to manually turn on a set of replicas.

Basically we have 2 datacenters, we'll call them A and B. One of my teams wanted 2 copies of a 3VM's for testing that reside at datacenter A copied to datacenter B. I used two separate replication jobs to get my most recent backup of these 3 VM's from site A to site B. The new VM's are segregated on their own Vswitch so they can't talk to anything but the 3 VM's ( each set of 3 has its own Vswitch)

Can I just power them on? What if any clean up tasks should I complete? I see they have snapshots, do I need to clean these up manually after powering them on? Let me also add these will be on long term, not just turned on and back off again. I don't need replication to them ever again.

I've completed many replica failovers but they were all real failovers using the Veeam console.

Hope this makes sense. Thanks in advance.

[Gostev]

Hi, this is covered in the sticky FAQ topic, kindly please review it. Thanks!

[csinetops]

Thanks for the pointer Gostev.

I do see that I can manually power them on, what the sticky doesn't seem to cover is what to do if you plan on leaving he VM's running. Do I consolidate the snapshots once he VM is up to get rid of them?

[Vitaliy S.]

If you want to make this VM a production one then you need to either consolidate all snapshots and disable/delete the corresponding replication job or do permanent failover via Veeam backup console. Thanks!

[csinetops]

Perfect, thank you!