Performing cleanup rehearsal for virtual machines
After you have performed the rehearsal operation successfully to verify the ability of your configured resiliency group to fail over on to the disaster recovery data center, you can use the cleanup rehearsal operation to clean up the rehearsal virtual machines or applications in the resiliency group. All temporary objects created during the rehearsal operation are now deleted.
Note:
Any snapshots of the cloud volumes that are taken external to Veritas Resiliency Platform may cause failure in rehearsal cleanup. This is applicable only for Orange Recovery Engine.
This setting is specific to recovery of virtual machines from VMware to VMware if Resiliency Platform data Mover is used and recovery of physical machines to VMware data center: While performing the rehearsal operation, DRS automation level for the target Replication Gateway should be set to manual or it should be disabled.
A few examples of these temporary objects on Hyper-V servers are:
A separate copy of virtual machine when you use Hyper-V Replica for data replication.
A new registered virtual machine that has its virtual machine data files (VHDX) residing on snapshot LUNs when array-based replication (for example, EMC SRDF) is used for data replication.
When your assets are configured for remote recovery using a service objective where the data availability mode is Copy, then during the rehearsal operation virtual machines are created on the recovery data center with the selected backup image. These virtual machines and the data are deleted during the cleanup operation.
To perform cleanup rehearsal
- Navigate to Assets (navigation pane) > Resiliency Group(s) tab.
- Double-click the resiliency group to view the details page. Click Cleanup Rehearsal.
- Select the target data center, and click Next.
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