Managing virtual machines for remote recovery (DR) using 3rd party replication technology
To provide disaster recovery (DR) protection, you organize virtual machines into a resiliency group and apply the remote recovery for hosts service objective. The wizard prompts for the inputs that are needed for the selected service objective and for the replication technology. The wizard then implements the configuration that is required for the DR operations.
Note:
If both the VMDK and VMX configuration files are not placed on a replicated disk, then you cannot configure the virtual machines for DR.
To manage virtual machines for remote recovery (DR) using 3rd party replication technology
- Prerequisites
Ensure that you have completed the configuration prerequisites for your virtualization and replication environment.
See Preparing VMware virtual machines for using array-based replication.
See Preparing Hyper-V virtual machines for using array-based replication.
- Navigate
Assets (navigation pane) > Resiliency Group(s) tab > Manage & Monitor Assets
You can also launch the wizard from the Unmanaged or Overview tabs.
- Select the assets:
Select Host as the asset type, select the data center, and select other filters as needed to display a list of virtual machines.
Drag and drop virtual machines to Selected Assets.
- The next page displays the environment for the selected assets.
- The next page lists the service objectives that are available for the selected asset type. You can expand the service objective to view details. Select the service objective that provides disaster recovery operations.
- Select the target (recovery) data center.
- Select the target Cluster or ESXi host. This panel is displayed only if the replication technology is NetApp SnapMirror. But if the storage is mounted using NFS protocol on both the data centers, then this panel is not displayed.
- Select the non-replicating datastore on the source data center and map it to a datastore on the target data center.
Click Add selected datastore pair to create a pair.
This panel is displayed since there are no replicated datastores used for storing RDM paths for the selected assets.
- View the network summary. Expand a virtual machine to view additional information about the source and target networks.
- Complete the network customization steps for the virtualization technology.
- Use the Customize System Generated Workflows panel to enable manual intervention at predefined points during the Migrate and Recover operations on both the data centers. This is an optional step.
- Verify the summarized information and enter a name for the resiliency group.
When you finish the wizard steps, Resiliency Platform invokes a workflow which initializes the DR configuration. You can view the progress or ensure that this operation is successfully completed on the Activities page.
See Viewing activities.
Verify that the new resiliency group is added to the Resiliency Groups tab.
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