To perform disaster recovery (DR) operations on virtual machines or applications, first they must be placed in a resiliency group, which is the unit of failover in Veritas Resiliency Platform.

You can configure resiliency groups without enabling them for disaster recovery. You can perform the start or stop operations on resiliency groups that are not enabled for DR. However, you cannot perform DR operations on a resiliency group without first enabling the resiliency group for disaster recovery. You can enable disaster recovery when you create the resiliency group, or at a later point of time you can select the resiliency group and perform the Configure DR operation.

After you enable and configure disaster recovery on a resiliency group, you can proceed with DR-specific tasks on the resiliency group, such as migrate and takeover.

A Virtual Business Service (VBS) lets you further group these resiliency groups in a vertical grouping mechanism, and lets you perform controlled start, stop and recovery operations on these resiliency groups.