Disaster recovery testing scenarios
Disaster Recovery (DR) is the ability of software and/or services to handle extreme scenarios. For example, the failure of the software itself or a datacenter outage.
Aiven provides this service to any Enterprise Support customers and can run these scenarios at your request up to 4 times per year.
Disaster Recovery scenario
This is a preset scenario where an Aiven specialist will simulate an
issue with your service and sabotage
one (or more) of your Virtual
Machines. For example, with an Aiven for PostgreSQL® service, we can
sabotage
the Primary instance and test the failover functionality or
we can sabotage both nodes to test recovery time for a complete outage.
Requirements
- At least 7 working days notice and the time (plus timezone) that you would like this carried out.
- A
throwaway
service created specifically for this scenario and not a service used in Production. - The virtual machine and/or the availability zone that you would like to target.
- An Enterprise Support contract.
Requesting a disaster recovery test
You can request a test by contacting the support team or by contacting your Customer Success Manager.
The process looks as follows:
- All communication during the exercise will occur in the support ticket.
- Aiven contacts you to confirm the start date and content of the scenario.
- You confirm the scenario and its start date.
- Actions taken on the service and/or virtual machines will be communicated through the support ticket.