Recovering virtual machines to cloud (AWS) using NetBackup Image Sharing
Using Resiliency Platform console, you can recover VMware virtual machines that are protected by NetBackup Image Sharing to AWS S3 object store and managed using a service objective where the data availability mode is Copy.
You can choose from the most recent successful backup image or another available backup image.
A virtual machine is recovered using the selected backup image at selected cloud data center. Before that, the virtual machine whose data is being recovered is stopped and unregistered. When the local restore is executed in the cloud data center, the virtual machines are removed and re-created using the selected backup image.
To recover a virtual machine on cloud, you can choose the backup images for on-premises virtual machines that are only available in the S3 bucket for either local or remote recover operation.
When recovering virtual machines on premises, you can choose for the backup images that are available either locally on premises or in the S3 bucket for that on premises virtual machine for either local or remote recover operation.
The network settings of the virtual machine are configured as per the subnet mapping, as specified during the configure for remote recovery operation. Finally, the virtual machine is brought up and running at the selected cloud data center.
If a virtual machine is deleted, you can choose the latest backup copy or any previous backup to restore the virtual machine on the cloud data center.
During the recover operation, first the AMI is created on the cloud recovery data center with the selected backup image which is backed up to S3 bucket using NetBackup Image Sharing, and using that AMI the cloud instance is provisioned.
Resiliency Platform attempts to delete the AMIs that are created as part of the DR operations once the cloud instances are provisioned using the AMIs. Any undeleted AMI that has a tag VRP-AMI-LifeCycle-State whose value is set to Removable can be safely removed manually.
Consider the following before running the recover operation on cloud:
The region of the cloud data center configured in Resiliency Platform and the region of the S3 bucket should be the same.
Appropriate network mapping should be present between premises and cloud network .
Resiliency manager should be connected to the NetBackup Cloud Recovery Server to perform the recover operation.
A successfully restored image is tagged. Hover the mouse on the tag to view additional information such as the NetBackup primary server name, the image type (full or incremental), and the last test date and time.
To recover virtual machine data to the cloud data center with copy based recovery
- Review the following prerequisites:
The resiliency group that contains the on-premises virtual machines must be protected using the service objective activated for copy based recovery.
- Navigate to Assets (navigation pane) > Resiliency Group(s) tab
- Go to the details page for the resiliency group with the virtual machines that you want to recover, and select Recover.
- In the Recover Resiliency Group panel do the following, and click Next.
Select one of the data centers for local recovery or remote recovery. The recover operation would be performed based on the data center selected.
Note:
If the resiliency group is created using Local recovery of hosts service objective, only Local data center is shown as target data center.
Select Latest or Time Range options for recovery points.
You can choose from the latest image or any other available backup from the specified time range. To choose from a specific time range, select the date and the time range. Then select the hours or minutes since the start time.
Click Submit.
Use (bottom pane) > Details to view the details of this operation in a graphical representation.
On successful completion of the recover operation, verify that the selected virtual machines are online in the cloud.
While performing the recover operation if an outage was declared on the production data center, you must clear the outage. Only after you have cleared the outage, you can recover the backup images from the cloud data center to the on-premises data center.
See Clearing outage.