Veritas Resiliency Platform lets you protect your virtual machines by creating a resiliency group and setting up disaster recovery for the group in a single set of steps.
To protect virtual machines
The virtual machines you use to create the resiliency group must reside in two data centers: the active data center and the recovery data center. The asset infrastructure for the virtual machines must be added to the Infrastructure Management Server (IMS) at the appropriate data center and IMS discovery of the virtual machines must be complete.
For more information on adding asset infrastructure, refer to the Veritas Resiliency Platform Deployment Guide.
You can also access the Protect Virtual Machines wizard from the Quick Action menu.
On the Select Assets screen, use one or more of the following drop-downs to filter your list of virtual machines:
To include a virtual machine in your new resiliency group, drag it from the list and drop in the Selected Instances area. If you change your mind, you can drag it back to the list of virtual machines. When you select all the assets you need, click Next.
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 Next.
When you have configured DR for the resiliency group, click Next.
The Select DR Datacenter screen identifies your active data center, and lists the data centers you can select for disaster recovery. When you select a disaster recovery data center for your resiliency group, make sure that the data center has copies of the same virtual machines. Select the check box for the data center you want use and click Next.
In the VM Selection screen, verify the VM configurations for the production data center and recovery data center.
The Summary screen lists the following:
The data center in which the resiliency group is located
The recovery data center you specified
The number of virtual machines in the recovery data center that you need to enable
Optionally, you can use the Summary screen to apply customized network settings, provided the subnets across the data centers are mapped.
If the configuration information is accurate and complete, click Submit.
On the confirmation screen, click Done.
The Resiliency Group tab is displayed, showing the new resiliency group.
You can use the Quick Actions drop-down list to perform other Veritas Resiliency Platform tasks.
More information is available on troubleshooting discovery of virtual machines.