On Saturday, Mar. 15, 2025, Eurex and GE DBoerse will offer a test scenario according to its T7 disaster recovery concept that is applicable for the current T7 Release 13.0.
This particular scenario renders T7 back end of Equinix data centre (FR2) inaccessible.
Co-location facility will still be accessible so such customers can also access the test.
During T7 disaster recovery test, production reference data will be used, including User IDs, T7 GUI SSH keys and ETI/FIX LF sessions, but will not be copied to production.
Participation in the T7 disaster recovery test is not only strongly recommended by but it is also seen as an essential part of the wider industry’s disaster recovery readiness.
All trading participants are urged to regularly take part in the T7 disaster recovery test.
The relevant documentation is provided on both Eurex and GE DBoerse web portals.
After T7 disaster recovery test has been completed, regular production environment will be made available for a certain time period for a re-connect test in order to allow participants to adapt configurations and test connectivity to production environment.
Test Success Measures
The T7 disaster recovery test can be regarded as successful when at least one of the three following conditions have been met either a message Connection Test Xetra or Connection Test Borse Frankfurt, respectively, appears with an increasing sequence.
Or a successful session or trader login via ETI or login via FIX LF has been performed.
Test Reporting
All trading participants are requested to provide Eurex and GE DBoerse with respective feedback regarding their T7 disaster recovery test planning by Feb. 28, 2025 at latest.
Regulators
Eurex; GE DBoerse
Entity Types
B/D; Bank; Depo; Exch
Reference
Cir Eurex 002/25, Cir GE DBoerse 002/2025, 1/13/2025
