Provide an Appliance Like Test Vehicle for IT Disaster Recovery

7) A method for facilitating testing of computer system failover process in a distributed computing environment comprising:

• configuring a first server to simulate a first simulated geographical site, the first server assigned the role of primary server
• configuring a second server simulating a second simulated geographical site, the second server designated a backup server to the primary server;
• configuring a high availability module to:
• assign the role of primary server to the first server and the role of backup server to the second server;
• monitor the health of the entire two site high availability cluster including resources such as networks, disks, IP addresses and applications;
• effect data synchronization between the first server and the backup server;
• detect failure of the primary server and
• responsive to detecting failure of the primary server, perform failover from the primary server to the backup server;
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• configuring an electronic Storage Area Network (SAN) to communicate with the first and second servers wherein the failover module controls bidirectional data replication between separate storage units associated with the first and second server;
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• attaching the servers and storage area network to a mobile device such that the device provides a fully functional system capable of simulating a geographically dispersed disaster recovery infrastructure.