Recover point - SAN Drive Replication DR Test

Just want to share our DR Test exercise which i am involved in, SAs are trying to replicate SAN Drive/Server on 2 places, server has the same name & IP with recover point.
That was my understanding about recover point.
we should be seeing the duplicate on another set of disks on another server, within DCX ( the server can be called the same, but diff IP for that server.( but i say same server name & IP on both ends)
Any body can help me clear my concepts about this?
That was the steps SAs/SAN engineers done
DNS was activated
domain controller was activated
tulppsh05 was successfully built from makesysb
tulpcorbadb02 was successfully built from makesysb
wmstutps01 was restored from symantec
citrixbox (name?) was built
Replication issue with SAN drives was resolved

My answers:
1. The restore command can restore datafiles belonging to tablespaces or control files or spfile and will do this at the right OS locations but it cannot restore online redo logs because RMAN does not back online redo logs.
2. If you are testing disaster recovery, you should test loosing all database files on disk (control files and datafiles and redo logs and spfile): it means that you can only do incomplete recovery since transactions committed in redo logs are not in your archived redo logs backups. So, yes this is point in time recovery.

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