Deploying Disaster Recovery Orchestrator involves the following tasks:

1. Setting up the cloud infrastructure for disaster recovery (DR) readiness

   • Procuring a Microsoft cloud services subscription

   • Creating a virtual network for DR

   • (Optional) Creating a virtual network for performing fire drills

   • Creating a virtual machine to install Disaster Recovery Orchestrator Console (Console host)

   • Creating a virtual machines to host the applications (cloud application hosts)

   • Creating the management certificate and for authentication and uploading it to Azure

   • Creating the service certificate or the Personal Information Exchange (PFX) file for authentication

2. Installing the Disaster Recovery Orchestrator components

   • Allocating users and groups for installing and configuring Disaster Recovery Orchestrator

   • Installing Disaster Recovery Orchestrator Console on the Console host

   • Installing Disaster Recovery Orchestrator Client on the on-premises application hosts

   • Installing Disaster Recovery Orchestrator Client on the cloud application hosts

3. Configuring users and security settings

   • Copying the PFX file to the Console host

   • Creating users and assigning them privileges on the on-premises application hosts for the application configurations

   • Creating users and assigning them privileges on the cloud application hosts to configure applications for monitoring and for recovery

     For more information, see the Symantec Disaster Recovery Orchestrator Administration Guide.