Managing VMware virtual machines for remote recovery to AWS cloud using NetBackup images
When you want to protect your assets that are being backed up using NetBackup, you need to organize them into a resiliency group and apply the service objective where the data availability mode is Copy.
To manage virtual machines for remote recovery to AWS Cloud using NetBackup images
- Review the prerequisites.
Ensure that you have completed the NetBackup configuration tasks and the local and remote service objective, with data availability as Copy, is activated.
Ensure that the virtual machine configuration prerequisites are met.
See Prerequisites for integrating NetBackup with Resiliency Platform.
- Navigate to
Assets (navigation pane) > Resiliency Group(s) tab > Manage & Monitor Assets
You can also launch the wizard from the Unmanaged or Overview tabs.
- Do the following to select the virtual machines:
Select Host as the asset type, select the data center, and select other filters as needed to display a list of virtual machine
Select the virtual machines that are backed up using NetBackup. You can identify the assets based on the NetBackup policy name and the technology that is displayed in the Data availability column.
Drag and drop the required virtual machines to Selected Instances, and click Next.
The next page displays the environment for the selected assets on both the data centers, click Next.
- The next page lists the service objectives that are available for the selected assets. You can expand the service objective to view details. Select the appropriate service objective.
- Select the target (recovery) data center.
- Do the following in the NetBackup configuration panel, and click Next.
Review the information about common policies across the selected virtual machines
For virtual machines, review the Cloud Recovery Server using which the data is to be recoverd, as also the AWS bucket listed under Container column. The backup images are available in the AWS bucket.
Review the policy schedule.
- Select the volume type. Choose a volume type for each disk of the virtual machine. The available volume type are displayed in the drop-down.
- Complete the customization for AWS.
The wizard presents the customization options that you can apply to the virtual machines when the recover operation is invoked. You must provide these inputs and configure the protection for the virtual machines.
See AWS Customization options panel.
About Elastic Networking Adapter (ENA) support in Resiliency Platform
- 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 virtual machines for the disaster recovery 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.
Note that after configuring the resiliency group, it might take some time for the backup images to reflect in the Recover wizard. Also note that all the available images from NetBackup primary server are not discovered. The discovery of images is on the selected RPO which is defined in the service objective. If the RPO is "X", at the time of creation of resiliency group, then 2X or past one month backup images, whichever is the maximum duration are discovered. Example if the RPO is 2 months, then the images for last 4 months since the time of creation of resiliency group are discovered. If the RPO is 4 hours then images for last one month are discovered.