Hi,  what sense does a failover within one data mover make ?  If you just want to make sure that your replicated data is fine just connect through C$ of a DM global CIFS server and navigate down to your replicated file system.  Out of two replicated vdm’s only one can be active at any time – otherwise you would have problems with duplicate CIFS servers on the network. I would suggest to take a look at the VDM manual to get an understanding what the VDM states mean.  Rainer
TEST FAILOVER FROM REPLICATOR V2  hello i need to to test recovering from my  my fs1_replica and vdm1_replica in loopback, but what are the step to do it locally,  i have tried but my CIFS server and Shares folders asociated to the vmd1_replica had gone. any idea.  what do i need to consider first in order of using the replicated fs and vdm. thanks
ns120 - need test replicator v2 and continue using CIFS starting my fs1_replica 
and vdm1_replica