Managing virtual machines for remote recovery (DR) from AWS region to AWS region
Using the Resiliency Platform console , you can organize virtual machines into a resiliency group, apply service objective for remote recovery for hosts, and configure them for remote recovery in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The wizard prompts for the inputs that are needed for the selected service objective and replication technology.
To manage virtual machines for remote recovery to AWS
- Perquisites:
- Navigate:
Assets (navigation pane) > Resiliency Group(s) tab > Manage & Monitor Assets
You can also launch the wizard from the Unmanaged or Overview tabs.
- Select the assets:
Select Host as the asset type, select the data center, and select other filters as needed to display a list of virtual machines.
Drag and drop virtual machines to Selected Assets.
- The next page displays the environment for the selected assets.
- The next page lists the service objectives that are available for the selected asset type. You can expand the service objective to view details. Select the service objective that provides disaster recovery operations.
- Select the target (recovery) data center.
- Select the Replication Gateway pairs.
- Select the volume type.
- In the Confirm Resiliency Platform Data Mover Details panel, verify the replication gateway pair selection and the asset information.
You can choose to Enable reverse replication after performing migrate operation on this page.
- Complete the customization for AWS.
- View the network summary. Expand a virtual machine to view additional information about the source and target networks.
- Complete the network customization steps for the virtualization technology.
- Use the Customize System Generated Workflows panel to enable manual intervention at predefined points during the Migrate and Recover operations on both the data centers. This is an optional step.
- Verify the summarized information and enter a name for the resiliency group.
Note:
After configuring the virtual machines for disaster recovery, do not rename the datastores. Refer the Troubleshooting section, if you rename it.See Troubleshooting: If datastores are renamed.
When you finish the wizard steps, Resiliency Platform invokes a workflow which initializes the DR 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 Group tab refer See Viewing resiliency group details.