In the CDP policy setup, I suggested setting up the network mappings to go from the production site network VLAN to the DR site's Data Lab VLAN. Here is what I am proposing as a workaround to a customer who I recently implemented VDRO for: (I notice that it is still not a feature in the recent v5 version *cue sadface, here*) I am going to second this request and am paying close attention to the progress in newer releases of VDRO. I'm sure I'm not alone in that judgement. There is no way our business is going to make a decision to move to CDP without this test lab functionality. The fundamental statement here is: you are providing us now with the ability to continuously replicate data but with no way to test. We spend hours every month putting replicas into labs to thoroughly test our applications and processes. If you can't verify your processes within a DataLab for CDP you are going to just hope that the failover works, and all your applications and scripting will just work.

Being able to verify VM's in a DataLab in my opinion is what makes VAO great, and to not have that functionality with CDP is a huge negative. For our labs we are not always interested in the most recent state of the data, as we keep multiple restore points we sometimes recover to something within the lab that is not the most recent.

I would have expected that we could have still disabled the CDP policy and used the replica within a DataLab, as we do at present with the standard replications.

Testout lab workaround