Translation. Region: Russian Federation –
Source: Moscow Exchange – Moscow Exchange –
An important disclaimer is at the bottom of this article.
We inform you that disaster recovery testing of the trading and clearing systems and subsystems of the stock, money, derivatives, and foreign exchange markets of the Moscow Exchange will take place on February 14, 2026.
The purpose of such testing is the failure of the primary data center and the transition of all MB systems to the backup data center.
Additional tasks:
Conduct system recovery in a backup data center with a trading volume corresponding to 15 hours. Allow participants to practice recovery on the trading volume according to their identifiers.
Preliminary DR testing schedule:
Part I. Start of the trading day in the Primary Data Center: 10:00–10:30 – Participants connecting to trading and clearing systems. 10:30–12:50 – Test trading on all markets*. 12:40 – Emulation of a Primary Data Center failure: disconnection of external network access to the data center and network connectivity between data centers. 13:50 – Complete shutdown of the Primary Data Center. Part II. Trading resumes in the Backup Data Center: 13:30–14:00 – Participants connecting to the backup data center (at this stage, connection from the colocation to the DSP and via ConnectME with the termination point in the DSP will be unavailable, connection to the FIFO Twime ASTS services will also be unavailable). 15:00–17:00 – Trading resumes on all markets, the Backup Data Center is operational, the Primary Data Center is unavailable. 5:00 PM – End of bidding at the Backup Data Center. Part III. Returning the configuration to standard production mode: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM – Technological break. 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM – Participants check the ability to connect to systems in all data centers and across all connection schemes, including colocation. End of testing.
* Between 10:30 and 12:50, MB robots will generate a transaction flow of 20,000 tr/sec.
To participate in testing, please send an application to the address no later than 17:00 MSK on February 11, 2026.help@moex.com, which must indicate:
Contact person responsible for testing. For the derivatives market: Broker login and section from which tests will be performed. IP address for access. For derivatives market logins that have submitted an application, the password for Plaza2 gateways and terminals will be changed to 12345 during the tests. Please make the appropriate changes to the client_router.ini file for the duration of the tests and return to the live password after the tests are completed. For the stock, forex, and money markets: User IDs. The IP address from which access will be provided if it differs from the current "live" addresses for the declared user IDs.
If you do not plan to participate in testing, please disconnect gateways and terminals from trading systems to avoid loading test data.
Please note that during testing, the Unified Client Registration Service (UCR), OTC will not work and the DSSVD on the Stock and Derivatives Markets will not be held on February 14 and 15, and there may also be interruptions in the availability of the exchange's WEB systems, including the website (www.moex.com), information and statistical server (iss.moex.com), FTP server.
Contact information for media: 7 (495) 363-3232PR@moex.com
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