Eurex Exchange’s T7 Disaster Recovery Test on 23 October 2021

1.  Introduction

On Saturday, 23 October 2021, Eurex T7 will participate in the industry-wide Disaster Recovery (DR) test scenario organised by the Futures Industry Association (FIA). Eurex Exchange will offer a test scenario according to its T7 disaster recovery concept. This particular DR scenario will simulate a partial outage of the primary data center facility (the co-location facility will remain up and running).

The DR test window will be available in the afternoon (Central European Summer Time) according to the following schedule:

The T7 production environment will be re-started for the business day 25 October 2021 on Sunday evening, 24 October 2021, at the usual time.

Learn more about our T7 Disaster Recovery test concept on our dedicated initiative page under the following link: Support > Initiatives & Releases > Project Readiness > T7 Disaster Recovery Test. System documentation, circulars, timeline and much more information is available there for you.

2.  Required action

Participation in the T7 Disaster Recovery test is not only strongly recommend by Eurex but it is also seen as an essential part of the industry’s disaster recovery readiness. Please make sure that your Chief Operations Officer as well as your Chief Compliance Officer are made aware of the test and that it is treated with the required priority.

Eurex kindly requests all Eurex Trading Participants to take part in the T7 disaster recovery test from now on.

Participation will serve to ensure that all requirements and demands for the transition to the disaster recovery environment are met and that the necessary emergency procedures are in place and have been successfully executed on a regular basis.

The validation of these emergency procedures is crucial for Eurex and its Trading Members not only to be compliant with the respective Business Continuity Processes but also to ensure continued market integrity.

All Trading Participants are kindly requested to provide Eurex with the respective feedback regarding their T7 Disaster Recovery Test planning by Friday, 17 September 2021 at the latest.

Feedback can be provided using the T7 Disaster Recovery Test Feedback Form. For your convenience an online submission process has been set up:

T7 Disaster Recovery Test Feedback Form

Please enter your dedicated Eurex PIN in the online questionnaire. The PIN for your company has been sent to the Central Coordinator.

3.  Details of the initiative

This particular DR scenario will simulate a partial outage of the primary Equinix data centre (FR2) facility. In such a disaster recovery scenario, Eurex Exchange’s T7 infrastructure regularly used for its T7 simulation will be re-used to serve as disaster recovery production infrastructure. However, the co-location facility will remain up and running and affected Members which have access to the DR data centre will be able to participate in the test.

During a DR test exercise, production reference data will be used, including User IDs, T7 GUI SSH keys and ETI sessions. Changes which have been made to this reference data will NOT be copied back to the production environment after the test. It is not advisable to perform any changes to this data during the test exercise.

While order entry, modification and deletion will be possible during the DR test exercise, any order book or trading information created during the DR test exercise will NOT be transferred back to the production environment.

The following Eurex T7 interfaces will be available during the DR test exercise:

• Eurex T7 Trader- and Admin-GUI
• Enhanced Transaction Interface (ETI)
• New FIX LF Interface (back office session) - introduced with T7 Release 9.0
• Eurex Market Data Interface (MDI)
• Eurex Enhanced Market Data Interface (EMDI)
• Enhanced Order Book Interface (EOBI)
• Reference Data Interface (RDI)
• Reference Data File (RDF)  
• Common Report Engine (CRE)

Trading Participants taking part in the DR test exercise can expect to receive market data via MDI, EMDI and EOBI and read reference data via RDI or RDF. Order and quote entry will be possible via ETI and the Trader GUI.

The disaster recovery test exercise can be regarded as successful when one of the two following conditions has been met:

• EITHER a message “Connection Test Eurex <hh:mm:ss>” appears with an increasing sequence number in the market news view (news board) of the T7 Trader GUI or the T7 Admin GUI
• OR a successful session or trader login via ETI has been performed and EMDI/EOBI/RDI heartbeats have been received.

The following Eurex T7 interfaces will NOT be available during the DR test exercise:

• Extended Market Data Service
• Existing FIX Gateway Interface implementation - planned to be decommissioned in 2022

Eurex Clearing’s C7 will also attend for the DR tests for first time. Please refer to document “Eurex Clearing C7 FIXML Failover Testing 2021” for further information.

The document is also available on the Eurex Clearing website www.eurex.com/ec-en/ under the link: Support > Initiatives & Releases > C7 Releases > C7 Release 7.1 > System documentation > Network Access

Deutsche Börse AG will also be offering a disaster recovery test opportunity for the trading venues Xetra and Börse Frankfurt on the same day, allowing both Eurex and Cash Markets Trading Participants to test DR scenarios simultaneously.

Please refer to the document “T7 Disaster Recovery Concept 2021 - Interface Configuration Details” for further details on the test scenario and all required network changes.

The document will be available at the end of August 2021 on the Eurex website www.eurex.com under the following links: Support > Initiatives & Releases > T7 Release 9.1 > Network Access

After the DR test has been completed, the regular production environment will be made available for a certain time period for a re-connect test in order to allow Trading Participants to adapt their configurations.
 

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