Configuring VMware virtual machines for disaster recovery using EMC RecoverPoint replication
This section lists the prerequisites to enable data replication using EMC RecoverPoint for the Veritas Resiliency Platform environment.
Ensure that the Infrastructure Managment Server (IMS) is able to communicate with RecoverPoint appliance using SSH.
Ensure that EMC RecoverPoint Appliance user has admin role to perform EMC RecoverPoint operations.
Ensure that the RecoverPoint replicated LUNs are assigned to the respective VMware ESX Servers. Do not attach replicated peer RecoverPoint LUNs (Production and remote copy) to the same VMware ESX Server.
Note:
If any changes are made to storage or storage-adapters available to the ESX/ESXi host or cluster, you must perform storage rescan, storage adapter rescan or both depending on the changes made.
Ensure that the Symmetrix, Clariion, VNX LUNs composing the datastore of the virtual machine's disk are grouped together into a RecoverPoint consistency group.
Note:
For EMC RecoverPoint-based replication in Resiliency Platform, all virtual machines that consume storage from a Veritas Replication Set must belong to the same resiliency group.
Once you have performed the necessary configurations, proceed with Resiliency Platform specific tasks to add the asset infrastructure to the Infrastructure Management Server (IMS).
Resiliency Platform configurations:
Using the Resiliency Platform console Infrastructure settings, you add the asset infrastructure for each data center (the production and recovery data centers). The following is a summary of the steps.
See Adding the asset infrastructure.
Ensure that the enclosure discovery is complete before proceeding with adding the VMware vCenter Servers
Add the vCenter Servers to the appropriate data centers. The user needs to have vCenter administrator privileges.
Ensure that the virtualization server and ESX server are discovered successfully.
Add EMC RecoverPoint appliance.
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