Patent ID: 8738958
Filing Date: 2014-05-27
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A recovery node testing system comprising a high availability appliance including a test node operating in a high availability appliance processor, the test node for: copying a protected server image associated with a protected server into the test node on the high availability appliance; activating the protected server image on the test node within a test environment operating on the high availability appliance, the test environment including at least one network characteristic of a network associated with the protected server; and communicating with the protected server image operating on the test node in the test environment to thereby perform a test to confirm that the protected server image on the test node responds within the test environment in the same manner as the protected server, and thereafter, communicating with a disaster recovery appliance to transmit the protected server image to the disaster recovery appliance without interrupting operation of the high availability appliance.