Recovering VMware virtual machines to on-premises data center using Resiliency Platform Data Mover
Using Veritas Resiliency Platform, you can recover VMware virtual machine to on-premises data center using Resiliency Platform Data Mover. For recovering VMware virtual machines to on-premises data center, Resiliency Platform Data Mover uses VMware VAIO (vSphere APIs for IO Filter) interfaces published and supported by VMware.
Veritas Resiliency Platform now supports Continuous Data Protection (CDP) mechanism to recover from the current or a point in past known as Recovery Point. This support is available from version 3.5 and is now supported only for recovering VMware virtual machines to on-premises data center using Resiliency Platform Data Mover using VMware VAIO (vSphere APIs for IO Filter) interfaces. CDP is enabled when you create or edit a resiliency group while selecting the Replication Gateway pair.
The following table provides the summary for deployment, configuration, and recovery of VMware virtual machines to on-premises data center using data mover.
Table: Recovering VMware virtual machines using VMware VAIO
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Plan your environment | Refer to the Overview and Planning Guide to know about the product, its components, features, and capabilities. Refer to the Release Notes for release information such as main features, known issues, and limitations. Ensure that the configuration details in your environment are compatible with the requirements mentioned in the checklist. |
Deploy and configure the virtual appliances | Veritas Resiliency Platform is deployed as virtual appliances. Download and deploy the virtual appliances for Resiliency Manager, IMS, and Replication Gateway in both the data centers.
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Set up the resiliency domain | Set up the infrastructure and basic settings of the Veritas Resiliency Platform resiliency domain. These tasks are performed after you configure the Resiliency Manager and log in to the web console.
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Add asset infrastructure | Before you can monitor and manage data center assets from the console, you must add the asset infrastructure to Veritas Resiliency Platform. The IMS then discovers the asset information for monitoring and operations in the console. |
Infrastructure Pairing | For recovering assets to VMware you have to do following Infrastructure Pairing:
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Create resiliency groups | After adding the assets to Resiliency Platform, you organize the related assets into a resiliency group that you can protect and manage as a single entity. You can create a resiliency group either for basic monitoring (start or stop virtual machines) or for recovery to remote data center. From version 3.5, CDP storage mechanism is provided to the resiliency groups. While configuring the resiliency group for disaster recovery, in the Replication Gateway pair selection wizard, you can enable the CDP storage and can provide the % of the CDP storage to be used on the source and target data centers. |
Advanced features | Virtual business services, resiliency plans, and evacuation plans are some of the features of Veritas Resiliency Platform that you can additionally use to customize the process of recovery of your assets. |
Perform remote recovery operations | Once you have configured the resiliency groups for remote recovery, you can perform rehearsal and cleanup rehearsal operations on the resiliency groups. You can also perform migrate, recover, or resync operations on the resiliency groups. |
Monitor assets | You can monitor risks to the recoverability or continuity of your protected assets. Run various reports to view the status of the assets in your data center. And view details about operations such as the status (in-progress, finished, or failed), start and end time, and the objects on which the operation was performed on the Activities page. |
Miscellaneous references | After the virtual appliances are deployed and configured, you are given limited menu-based access to the operating system and the product. You need to use klish menu to manage the configuration-related changes to the product and to troubleshoot. You can also use klish to update Resiliency Platform components. |
