Disaster recovery testing on 18 July 2020

Dear MOEX clients,

On 18 July 2020 (Saturday) Moscow Exchange invites you to participate in the disaster recovery testing.
The objective of this testing is to examine the ability to switch all systems and users to a backup data center.

The preliminary testing schedule (MSK time zone):
Part I. Start of trading day at DSP datacenter:

• 10.00 – 10.30 – Clients connect via Universal scheme and ConnectME scheme to trading systems at the Dataspace datacenter.
• 10.30 – 11.30 – Trading period for all markets, Dataspace runs as primary datacenter. Money market will only be available for connectivity test, no auctions will be held.
• 11.30 – 12.30 – DSP failure emulation: network access to DSP will be cut down.

Part II. Continuation of trading day at M1 datacenter:

• 12.30 – 13.00 – Clients connect to trading systems at the M1 (All trading systems will be unavailable from colocation zone at the DSP datacenter and ConnectME schemes terminated at the DSP datacenter during this stage)
• 13.00 – 14.00 – Continuation of trading day for all trading systems. M1 runs as primary datacenter, DSP datacenter is unavailable.

Part III. Production configuration restoration:

16:00 – 18:00 – participants check ability to connect to systems in all datacenters and via all connection schemes, including colocation.

Final schedule will be published later, with the start of participant registration.