HA Testing with MSA2012FC and 8/20Q switches

[Simon Green_2]

I'm writing a couple of procedures for testing our HA storage environment and basically want to test a failover in the event of a failure of either one of our 8/20q switches and either one of the controllers in our MSA 2012FC.
Whats the best way for each device - should I simply power each 8/20q (one at a time of course) or is there a better way? Likewise I just intend to shutdown each controller on the MSA - again is there a better way of doing this?
Simon

[Prokopets]

Simon,
powering off switches is ok, if you want to see, how your environment will work after brownout. You can also try to disable ports on a switch, it's little less extreme method.
As for shutdown of controllers, you can do it via CLI.