Managing and monitoring virtual machines
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Managing and monitoring virtual machines

A resiliency group lets you manage and monitor a group of assets as a single entity. For example, when you start a resiliency group, you start all the assets in the group.

You can create a resiliency group from virtual machines or applications, but not a mix of both.

You can organize any group of virtual machines into a resiliency group. However, the virtual machines often have a common characteristic. For example, they are all members of the same consistency group or they have the same virtualization server or hypervisor.

To create a resiliency group from virtual machines

  1. Prerequisites

    The asset infrastructure for the virtual machines must be added to the Infrastructure Management Server (IMS) and IMS discovery must be complete.

    For more information on adding asset infrastructure, refer to the Veritas Resiliency Platform Deployment Guide.

  2. Navigate

    Assets > Resiliency Groups tab > Manage & Monitor Virtual Machines or Applications

    Or

    Assets > Unmanaged tab > Manage & Monitor Virtual Machines or Applications
  3. Display a list of virtual machines

    On the Select Assets screen, use one or more of the following drop-downs to filter your list of virtual machines:

    Asset Type

    Select Virtual Machine.

    Data Center

    The data center in which the virtual machine is located.

    Virtualization

    The virtualization type.
  4. Filter the list of virtual machines (optional)

    Group By

    Organize the virtual machines by virtualization server or replication consistency group.

    Search

    If you have a long list of virtual machines, use the Search field to filter the list.

    show assets in resiliency group

    When you select this check box, the list of virtual machines is updated with a Resiliency Group column. If a virtual machine is already a member of a resiliency group, this column displays the name of the group.
  5. Select the virtual machines

    To include a virtual machine in your new resiliency group, drag it from the list and drop in the Selected Instances area. To unselect a virtual machine from the Selected Instances area, you can drag it back to the list of virtual machines. When you select all the assets you need, click Next.

  6. Create the resiliency group

    Review the list of virtual machines that form your new resiliency group. If you need to make any changes, click Back return to the Select Assets screen. When you are ready, name the resiliency group and click Submit.

  7. Verify

    On the confirmation screen, click Done.

    A screen is displayed showing detailed information about the new resiliency group. It includes the following:

    • The active data centers, replication type, and replication state.

    • Controls to modify, delete, start, and stop the resiliency group.

    • The disaster recovery readiness of the resiliency group. You can configure disaster recovery from this screen.

    • A list of the virtual machines in the resiliency group.

    • A list of risks (if any) to the resiliency group.

Click Activities (bottom pane), and click Details to view the details of this task in a graphical representation.

More information is available on troubleshooting discovery of virtual machines.

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