VMware virtual machines disaster recovery - an overview of key steps

This section lists the key steps required to configure the disaster recovery of VMware virtual machines using Veritas Resiliency Platform.

Table: VMware virtual machines disaster recovery - an overview of key steps

Action

Description

Refer to

Set up your replication environment

Set up your VMware environment and storage arrays for replication.

For EMC SRDF-based replication:

See Configuring VMware virtual machines disaster recovery using EMC SRDF replication.

For NetApp SnapMirror based replication:

See Configuring VMware disaster recovery using NetApp SnapMirror.

Add the asset infrastructure

Add the asset infrastructure to the Infrastructure Management Server (IMS) using the Resiliency Platform web console.

Refer to the Veritas Resiliency Platform Deployment Guide .

Configure your assets for disaster recovery

Group the required virtual machines in a resiliency group and enable disaster recovery for the resiliency group.

See Protecting virtual machines.

See Configuring disaster recovery for a resiliency group of virtual machines.

DR operations

Perform the required DR operations: Migrate, takeover, and rehearse.

See Ensuring the disaster recovery readiness of your Resiliency Platform assets using the rehearse operation.

See Performing rehearsal cleanup.

See Migrating a resiliency group of virtual machines.

See Taking over a resiliency group of virtual machines.