diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/clusterts/cluster_with_replication.xml b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/clusterts/cluster_with_replication.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b9f4658
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/clusterts/cluster_with_replication.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+<!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+<cluster xmlns="cluster">
+
+    <name>vagrant</name>
+
+    <username>vagrant</username>
+
+    <working_dir>
+        <dir>/vagrant/asterix/managix-working</dir>
+        <NFS>true</NFS>
+    </working_dir>
+
+    <log_dir>/home/vagrant/asterix/logs/</log_dir>
+    <txn_log_dir>/home/vagrant/asterix/tx_logs</txn_log_dir>
+    <iodevices>/home/vagrant/asterix/p1,/home/vagrant/asterix/p2</iodevices>
+
+    <store>storage</store>
+
+    <java_home>/usr/java/latest</java_home>
+    <metadata_node>nc1</metadata_node>
+
+    <data_replication>
+        <enabled>true</enabled>
+        <replication_port>2000</replication_port>
+        <replication_factor>2</replication_factor>
+        <auto_failover>true</auto_failover>
+        <replication_time_out>10</replication_time_out>
+    </data_replication>
+
+    <master_node>
+        <id>cc</id>
+        <client_ip>10.10.0.2</client_ip>
+        <cluster_ip>10.10.0.2</cluster_ip>
+        <client_port>1098</client_port>
+        <cluster_port>1099</cluster_port>
+        <http_port>8888</http_port>
+    </master_node>
+    <node>
+        <id>nc1</id>
+        <cluster_ip>10.10.0.3</cluster_ip>
+    </node>
+    <node>
+        <id>nc2</id>
+        <cluster_ip>10.10.0.4</cluster_ip>
+    </node>
+</cluster>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/clusterts/known_hosts b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/clusterts/known_hosts
index 5ab452a..273f9f3 100644
--- a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/clusterts/known_hosts
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/clusterts/known_hosts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
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\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.1.ddl.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.1.ddl.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6a2441e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.1.ddl.aql
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+/*
+ * Test case Name  : bulkload.aql
+ * Description     : Check that Bulkload LSM component are replicated correclty.
+                     The test goes as follows:
+                     start 2 nodes, bulkload a dataset, query data, kill one node
+                     and wait until the failover complete, query the data again.
+ * Expected Result : Success
+ * Date            : January 6 2016
+ */
+
+drop dataverse TinySocial if exists;
+create dataverse TinySocial;
+use dataverse TinySocial;
+
+create type EmploymentType as open {
+    organization-name: string,
+    start-date: date,
+    end-date: date?
+}
+
+create type FacebookUserType as closed {
+    id: int,
+    alias: string,
+    name: string,
+    user-since: datetime,
+    friend-ids: {{ int32 }},
+    employment: [EmploymentType]
+}
+
+/********* 2. Create Datasets  ***********/
+use dataverse TinySocial;
+
+drop dataset FacebookUsers if exists;
+
+create dataset FacebookUsers(FacebookUserType)
+primary key id;
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.2.update.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.2.update.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ae14ad0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.2.update.aql
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+/*
+ * Test case Name  : bulkload.aql
+ * Description     : Check that Bulkload LSM component are replicated correclty.
+                     The test goes as follows:
+                     start 2 nodes, bulkload a dataset, query data, kill one node
+                     and wait until the failover complete, query the data again.
+ * Expected Result : Success
+ * Date            : January 6 2016
+ */
+
+use dataverse TinySocial;
+
+load dataset FacebookUsers using localfs
+(("path"="vagrant-ssh_nc1:///vagrant/data/fbu.adm"),("format"="adm"));
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.3.txnqbc.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.3.txnqbc.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c8cb96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.3.txnqbc.aql
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+/*
+ * Test case Name  : bulkload.aql
+ * Description     : Check that Bulkload LSM component are replicated correclty.
+                     The test goes as follows:
+                     start 2 nodes, bulkload a dataset, query data, kill one node
+                     and wait until the failover complete, query the data again.
+ * Expected Result : Success
+ * Date            : January 6 2016
+ */
+
+use dataverse TinySocial;
+
+count (for $x in dataset FacebookUsers return $x);
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.4.vagrant_script.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.4.vagrant_script.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5695ed7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.4.vagrant_script.aql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+nc2 kill_cc_and_nc.sh
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.5.sleep.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.5.sleep.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..51b0e76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.5.sleep.aql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+60000
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.6.txnqar.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.6.txnqar.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c8cb96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/bulkload/bulkload.6.txnqar.aql
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+/*
+ * Test case Name  : bulkload.aql
+ * Description     : Check that Bulkload LSM component are replicated correclty.
+                     The test goes as follows:
+                     start 2 nodes, bulkload a dataset, query data, kill one node
+                     and wait until the failover complete, query the data again.
+ * Expected Result : Success
+ * Date            : January 6 2016
+ */
+
+use dataverse TinySocial;
+
+count (for $x in dataset FacebookUsers return $x);
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.1.ddl.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.1.ddl.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8de2067
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.1.ddl.aql
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+/*
+ * Test case Name  : mem_component_recovery.aql
+ * Description     : Check that Memory LSM component are replicated and recovered correclty.
+                     The test goes as follows:
+                     start 2 nodes, bulkload a dataset, copy it to in-memory dataset, query
+                     data from memory, kill one node and wait until the failover complete,
+                     query the data again.
+ * Expected Result : Success
+ * Date            : January 6 2016
+ */
+
+drop dataverse TinySocial if exists;
+create dataverse TinySocial;
+use dataverse TinySocial;
+
+create type EmploymentType as open {
+    organization-name: string,
+    start-date: date,
+    end-date: date?
+}
+
+create type FacebookUserType as closed {
+    id: int,
+    alias: string,
+    name: string,
+    user-since: datetime,
+    friend-ids: {{ int32 }},
+    employment: [EmploymentType]
+}
+
+/********* 2. Create Datasets  ***********/
+use dataverse TinySocial;
+
+drop dataset FacebookUsers if exists;
+
+create dataset FacebookUsers(FacebookUserType)
+primary key id;
+
+create dataset FacebookUsersInMemory(FacebookUserType)
+primary key id;
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.2.update.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.2.update.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8087689
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.2.update.aql
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+/*
+ * Test case Name  : mem_component_recovery.aql
+ * Description     : Check that Memory LSM component are replicated and recovered correclty.
+                     The test goes as follows:
+                     start 2 nodes, bulkload a dataset, copy it to in-memory dataset, query
+                     data from memory, kill one node and wait until the failover complete,
+                     query the data again.
+ * Expected Result : Success
+ * Date            : January 6 2016
+ */
+use dataverse TinySocial;
+
+load dataset FacebookUsers using localfs
+(("path"="vagrant-ssh_nc1:///vagrant/data/fbu.adm"),("format"="adm"));
+
+insert into dataset TinySocial.FacebookUsersInMemory(for $x in dataset TinySocial.FacebookUsers return $x);
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diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.3.txnqbc.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.3.txnqbc.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e25e409
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.3.txnqbc.aql
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+/*
+ * Test case Name  : mem_component_recovery.aql
+ * Description     : Check that Memory LSM component are replicated and recovered correclty.
+                     The test goes as follows:
+                     start 2 nodes, bulkload a dataset, copy it to in-memory dataset, query
+                     data from memory, kill one node and wait until the failover complete,
+                     query the data again.
+ * Expected Result : Success
+ * Date            : January 6 2016
+ */
+
+use dataverse TinySocial;
+
+count (for $x in dataset FacebookUsersInMemory return $x);
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diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.4.vagrant_script.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.4.vagrant_script.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5695ed7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.4.vagrant_script.aql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+nc2 kill_cc_and_nc.sh
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diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.5.sleep.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.5.sleep.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..51b0e76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.5.sleep.aql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+60000
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.6.txnqar.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.6.txnqar.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e25e409
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/mem_component_recovery/mem_component_recovery.6.txnqar.aql
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+/*
+ * Test case Name  : mem_component_recovery.aql
+ * Description     : Check that Memory LSM component are replicated and recovered correclty.
+                     The test goes as follows:
+                     start 2 nodes, bulkload a dataset, copy it to in-memory dataset, query
+                     data from memory, kill one node and wait until the failover complete,
+                     query the data again.
+ * Expected Result : Success
+ * Date            : January 6 2016
+ */
+
+use dataverse TinySocial;
+
+count (for $x in dataset FacebookUsersInMemory return $x);
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/metadata_node/metadata_node.1.ddl.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/metadata_node/metadata_node.1.ddl.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..113d144
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/metadata_node/metadata_node.1.ddl.aql
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+/*
+ * Test case Name  : metadata_node_recovery.aql
+ * Description     : Check that metadata node failover is done correctly.
+                     The test goes as follows:
+                     start 2 nodes, create a dataset, kill metadata node
+                     and wait until the failover complete, verify the
+                     dataset still exists.
+ * Expected Result : Success
+ * Date            : January 6 2016
+ */
+
+drop dataverse TinySocial if exists;
+create dataverse TinySocial;
+use dataverse TinySocial;
+
+create type EmploymentType as open {
+    organization-name: string,
+    start-date: date,
+    end-date: date?
+}
+
+create type FacebookUserType as closed {
+    id: int,
+    alias: string,
+    name: string,
+    user-since: datetime,
+    friend-ids: {{ int32 }},
+    employment: [EmploymentType]
+}
+
+/********* 2. Create Datasets  ***********/
+use dataverse TinySocial;
+
+drop dataset FacebookUsers if exists;
+
+create dataset FacebookUsers(FacebookUserType)
+primary key id;
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diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/metadata_node/metadata_node.2.txnqbc.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/metadata_node/metadata_node.2.txnqbc.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..76bdcfe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/metadata_node/metadata_node.2.txnqbc.aql
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+/*
+ * Test case Name  : metadata_node_recovery.aql
+ * Description     : Check that metadata node failover is done correctly.
+                     The test goes as follows:
+                     start 2 nodes, create a dataset, kill metadata node
+                     and wait until the failover complete, verify the
+                     dataset still exists.
+ * Expected Result : Success
+ * Date            : January 6 2016
+ */
+
+for $x in dataset Metadata.Dataset where $x.DatasetName ='FacebookUsers' return $x.DatasetName;
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/metadata_node/metadata_node.3.vagrant_script.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/metadata_node/metadata_node.3.vagrant_script.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5eec164
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/metadata_node/metadata_node.3.vagrant_script.aql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+nc1 kill_cc_and_nc.sh
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/metadata_node/metadata_node.4.sleep.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/metadata_node/metadata_node.4.sleep.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..51b0e76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/metadata_node/metadata_node.4.sleep.aql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+60000
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/metadata_node/metadata_node.5.txnqar.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/metadata_node/metadata_node.5.txnqar.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ac1c593
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/queries/failover/metadata_node/metadata_node.5.txnqar.aql
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+/*
+ * Test case Name  : metadata_node_recovery.aql
+ * Description     : Check that metadata node failover is done correctly.
+                     The test goes as follows:
+                     start 2 nodes, create a dataset, kill metadata node
+                     and wait until the failover complete, verify the
+                     dataset still exists.
+ * Expected Result : Success
+ * Date            : January 6 2016
+ */
+
+use dataverse TinySocial;
+
+for $x in dataset Metadata.Dataset where $x.DatasetName ='FacebookUsers' return $x.DatasetName;
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/testsuite.xml b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/testsuite.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f033086
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/integrationts/replication/testsuite.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+<!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+<test-suite xmlns="urn:xml.testframework.asterix.apache.org" ResultOffsetPath="results" QueryOffsetPath="queries" QueryFileExtension=".aql">
+  <test-group name="failover">
+    <test-case FilePath="failover">
+      <compilation-unit name="bulkload">
+        <output-dir compare="Text">bulkload</output-dir>
+      </compilation-unit>
+    </test-case>
+    <test-case FilePath="failover">
+      <compilation-unit name="mem_component_recovery">
+        <output-dir compare="Text">mem_component_recovery</output-dir>
+      </compilation-unit>
+    </test-case>
+    <test-case FilePath="failover">
+      <compilation-unit name="metadata_node">
+        <output-dir compare="Text">metadata_node</output-dir>
+      </compilation-unit>
+    </test-case>
+  </test-group>
+</test-suite>
\ No newline at end of file