Operational Validation

These exercises prove that the cluster can recover from failures and protect data — two of the most important POC outcomes. Run them after you have deployed workloads from the Container Workloads and Virtual Machine Workloads sections.

Test	What It Proves	Prerequisites
VM Failover Test	Node-loss recovery within 120 seconds for VMs	Workload Availability, Virtualization, RWX storage
Container Failover Test	Container rescheduling on node failure	Workload Availability
VM Backup and Restore	OADP can back up a running VM and restore it after deletion	OADP, Virtualization

Tip

These tests are designed to be run in front of stakeholders — they produce clear, demonstrable results (VM comes back on a different node, data is restored after deletion). Schedule them for the POC review day.