Configuring Hyper-V virtual machines for disaster recovery using IBM XIV Remote Mirror
This section lists the pre-requisites to enable data replication using IBM XIV Remote Mirror when the hosts are not part of a Microsoft failover cluster.
Prerequisites:
Ensure that you have created the volumes on the primary Hyper-V host where the LUNs are read/write enabled. Veritas Resiliency Platform supports only one volume per replicated disk. We do not support Windows Storage Space Storage Pool.
Ensure that you have created virtual machines at the primary data center under the Hyper-V Manager and kept the data files (.vhdx) on the replicated volumes. Do not keep the configuration files (.xml) on any replicated drive. Also, make sure that the default virtual machine configuration location under Hyper-V Manager Settings is not on a replicated drive.
Ensure the respective remote disks (Read only - R2 remote disk and snapshot) are in the offline state on the Hyper-V server at the DR data center. And also verify that no drive letter is assigned to the volumes present on these offline disks.
Complete the following tasks before you proceed with the Resiliency Platform specific tasks.
Install IBM XIV Command Line Interface (XCLI) on a Windows or Linux host. This host acts as a discovery host for array IBM XIV enclosures.
Using the XCLI command, verify if the IBM XIV array is accessible and command execution is successful.
Ensure IMS is reachable from the host having IBM XCLI installed.
Ensure that the IBM XIV array user is having the role of an 'Administrator'.
Once you have performed the necessary configurations, proceed with Resiliency Platform specific tasks.
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.
Add the host having XCLI installed as a discovery host using the Resiliency Platform console.
Add IBM XIV enclosures to the appropriate data centers using the option. Select the discovery host, provide the enclosure name or IP address, username, and password. Enter the full path of the folder having XCLI binary in CLI Location text box.
Ensure that the enclosures are discovered successfully.
Add Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 host using the option in > > .