This is Part 2 of my blog post on DRaaS using Azure. You can view first part of the blog here In first part, we discussed how to protect your on-prem physical servers using Azure Site Recovery services. Having a DR strategy and enabling protection is not always enough. You should ensure that your DR strategy will work as expected when a disaster strikes. In case of usual DR solutions, it is not always possible to test the DR strategy without downtimes. However, Azure Site Recovery provides you with an option to test your DR strategy and keep it well oiled and battle ready!! Test failover to the rescue.. Lets see how we can do a test failover of on-prem physical services to Azure. Select the vault where your replicated data resides. Select the settings, and choose the replicated items. Select the option "Test failover" Select the settings of the test failover. The failover direction will be automatically selected, ie from on-prem to Azure. You can select the reco