An administrator needs to perform a test failover on a Recovery Plan. What is the primary goal of this action?

A test failover is a non-disruptive operation designed to validate a recovery plan's configuration. It brings up copies of the protected VMs in a sandboxed network at the recovery site using existing replicated snapshots. This process verifies that VMs can be recovered and that network mappings are correct without affecting the running production workloads at the primary site. The primary goal is to ensure recoverability and readiness for a real disaster scenario.

A. Copying data is part of the ongoing replication process defined by the protection policy, not the primary goal of the test failover action itself, which uses already-replicated data.

B. This describes a planned or unplanned failover, which is a production-impacting event that moves workloads, not a non-disruptive test.

D. Disabling replication is a separate administrative task, typically done for maintenance, and is not a goal or part of a test failover.

1. Nutanix University, Nutanix Certified Professional - Business Continuity (NCP-BC) 6.5, Module 4: Disaster Recovery Runbooks, Lesson: Recovery Plan Workflows.

2. Nutanix Disaster Recovery Guide v6.0, Chapter: Recovery Plan Management, Section: Performing a Test Failover. "You can perform a test failover to validate a recovery plan. A test failover is a non-disruptive test. It does not impact the primary site."