Video - Migrating your assets to different availability zones of AWS
Using Veritas Resiliency Platform you can migrate your assets to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. The following video covers how to migrate your assets to the different availability zones of AWS. Some of the reasons for migrating to different availability zones are: high availability and load balancing, or to retain your VMware cluster configuration of the source data center on the target data center. The video shows how to club your assets to form a resiliency group and configure this resiliency group for disaster recovery. While configuring, you need to choose the replication technology, select the Replication Gateways that are mapped to different availability zones, map the networks to successfully protect the assets or virtual machines.Video - Managing Evacuation Plan in Veritas Resiliency Platform
The following video covers how to evacuate your assets to Azure using Veritas Resiliency Platform. The following Evacuation Plan operations are shown: Generate an evacuation plan Rehearsal Cleanup rehearsal Evacuate to Azure data center The next video covers the following: How and when to regenerate an evacuation plan. How todeal with the errors which occur during the evacuation operation. Evacuation Plan BlogEvacuating your assets using Veritas Resiliency Platform
The Evacuation Plan feature of Veritas Resiliency Platform lets you evacuate all the assets from your production data center to your recovery data center. Instead of individually moving your assets to the recovery center, you can save your time by adding these assets to the evacuation plan and then execute the plan with a single click operation. Resiliency Platform supports evacuation to various recovery data centers namely Azure, Amazon Web Services, vCloud Director, and even to your on-premises data center. Use the evacuation plan template to define the sequence in which the virtual business services (VBS) should be migrated from the production data center to the recovery data center. Resiliency groups that do not belong to any VBSs, are appended at the end of the evacuation plan workflow after the VBS. If you have not configured any VBSs, then the evacuation plan is created using only the resiliency groups. Having a VBS is not compulsory. An evacuation plan has Priorities. You can add the VBSs to different priority levels but the ordering of resiliency groups is done by the Resiliency Platform. You can also define the VBS priority within the priority group. When you have a large number of VBSs, then up to 5 VBSs within a priority group are migrated in parallel to the recovery data center. Similarly, if you have a large number of resiliency groups, up to 10 resiliency groups are migrated in parallel. Continue on failures is another functionality of an evacuation plan. If an asset within a VBS or a resiliency group fails to recover, the evacuation plan skips the asset and continues the process for the remaining assets. You have the option to select this checkbox while creating the evacuation plan. If you choose not to select the checkbox, then the evacuation process stops till you have fixed the problem. For a VBS or a resiliency group to successfully evacuate to the target data center, it should meet the following criteria: ■ VBS or resiliency group that belong to the evacuation plan must be configured for disaster recovery ■ VBS can contain resiliency groups some of which are configured for disaster recovery and some using the service objective with data availability as Copy. ■ Resiliency group must belong to only one VBS. After successfully creating an evacuation plan, you can perform operations such as Rehearse evacuation, Cleanup rehearse evacuation, Evacuate or Regenerate the plan. It is recommended that you perform a rehearsal to ensure that the assets are evacuated properly. After rehearsal you can run the cleanup rehearse operation to delete all the temporary objects that were created during rehearsal. At a later point in time if you make some changes to the VBSs or the resiliency groups, an alert is raised asking you to regenerate the plan. Refer to About evacuation plan for more information on the situations when an alert is raised. To create and run an evacuation plan, you need Manage Evacuation Plans permission. You can also watch the videoshere.Dashboard and reports in Veritas Resiliency Platform
The Resiliency Platform Dashboard gives you an overview of your resiliency domain. Use the Dashboard to answer questions such as: Which of my data centers have Resiliency Platform managed assets? What is the mix of my assets by type and platform? Which assets are configured for disaster recovery? Please see the first Dashboard for reference, below, and for more information, you can view the following topic:About the Resiliency Platform Dashboard Using the Veritas Resiliency Platform console, you can generate a variety of reports. The reports are grouped into three broad categories: Inventory: Reports in this category provide information about the data centers and applications, and the virtual machines that are deployed in the data centers. Recovery Assessment: This category lists the reports that are related to the disaster recovery operations such as the Migrate and Takeover report, and the Rehearsal report. Risk: This category has two reports; Current Risk and Risk History. These reports show the summary and details of all the current and historical risks that occurred in the environment. Reports can be scoped on the data center or global. You can subscribe for a report on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly basis, or on predefined days of the week, or run on demand. Reports are available in the HTML and PDF format or as a comma-separated file (CSV) file. The second table following these exampletables lists the reports and a brief description of each. Name Description Global View A world map that identifies the data centers. Lines between the data center indicates the replication. Resiliency Groups and Virtual Business Services summaries The number of resiliency groups and Virtual Business Services (VBS) that are configured for disaster recovery (DR), as well as those at risk and normal. Virtual Machines by Type and Platform A summary of virtual machines in all the data centers or information on a single data center by percentage and the platform types by number. Application environment The number of applications and application types as well as those managed by InfoScale. Applications by Type A summary of application types in all the data centers or in a single data center. Top Resiliency Groups by Replication Lag Ranks the resiliency groups according to how long it takes the recovery data center to be in sync with the active data center. Virtual Machines and Applications by Recovery Readiness The percentage of virtual machines and applications that are protected, unprotected, and unmanaged. Report Name Description Inventory Resiliency Groups by Datacenter Provides details about the resiliency groups in the data centers across all sites. License Entitlement Provides details about the licenses that are deployed for various Veritas Resiliency Platform solutions. VM Inventory Provides platform distribution and operating system (OS) distribution details about the virtual machines that are deployed in the data centers in the form of a pie chart. Virtual Infrastructure Inventory Provides information about the virtual infrastructure inventory across data centers. A pie charts show the platform and virtualization technology distribution of the virtual servers across all data centers. Recovery Assessement Migrate and Takeover Provides a summary of the last migrate and takeover operations that were performed on the resiliency groups. A pie chart shows the percentage of successful and failed operations. Rehearse Provides a summary of the latest rehearse operations that were performed on the resiliency groups. A pie chart shows the percentage of successful and failed operations. A list of resiliency groups on which the rehearse operation had failed is shown. A table displays the details of the last performed rehearse operation on the resiliency groups. Risk Current Risk Provides the summary and detail information about all the current risks in the data center. The high-level summary shows the total number of risks and its distribution by severity. You can view three different charts for information on severity-wise distribution, unresolved risks for a time period, and risks generated in last 24 hours. Risk History Provides a summary and a detailed analysis of information about the historical risks in your environment during the specified period. The high-level summary shows the total number of risks and its distribution by the time the risks have been open. You can view three different charts for information on open and new risks, average time taken to resolve a risk, and the top five risks that took the longest time to resolve. For more information on reports you can view the following topics: Managing reports Viewing reports in VMware Solutions guide Viewing reports in Hyper-V Solutions guide Viewing reports in Applications Solutions guide Veritas Resiliency Platform documentation can be found on the SORT website.Managing and protecting virtual machines using VRP 1.1 - Part 1
How to manageand protect yourvirtual machines using Veritas Resiliency Platform 1.1 is covered in a series of three videos. Part 1 covers how to create a resiliency group and enable disaster recovery for it. Part 2 covers rehearse and clean up rehearsal operations. Part 3 covers migrate, take over, and resync operations.Managing and protecting virtual machines using VRP 1.1 - Part 2
How to manageand protect yourvirtual machines using Veritas Resiliency Platform 1.1 is covered in a series of three videos. Part 1 covers how to create a resiliency group and enable disaster recovery for it. Part 2 covers rehearse and clean up rehearsal operations. Part 3 covers migrate, take over, and resync operations.Managing and protecting virtual machines using VRP 1.1 - Part 3
How to manageand protect yourvirtual machines using Veritas Resiliency Platform 1.1 is covered in a series of three videos. Part 1 covers how to create a resiliency group and enable disaster recovery for it. Part 2 covers rehearse and clean up rehearsal operations. Part 3 covers migrate, take over, and resync operations.
Service level driven resiliency management for virtual environments with Veritas Resiliency Platform
This video shows how DR admins can provide resiliency for virtual machines deployed in heterogeneous environments requiring different service objectives and orchestrate their recovery to an off-geo data center or to a private / public cloud environment using Veritas Resiliency Platform through a uniform and standardized interface.
