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 to deal with the errors which occur during the evacuation operation. Evacuation Plan Blog
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 example tables 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 manage and protect your virtual 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 manage and protect your virtual 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 manage and protect your virtual 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.
Veritas Risk Advisor: Working with Reports
Veritas Risk Advisor (VRA) is a data protection and downtime avoidance risk assessment solution that lets you diagnose disaster recovery and high availability (clustering) problems (also called “gaps”) and optimize data protection and reduce the risk of downtime. VRA enables enterprises to effectively manage business continuity implementations to ensure that critical business data is protected. VRA automatically detects and alerts you to any potential gaps, best practice violations, or service level agreement (SLA) breaches. VRA’s Report Generator automatically generates detailed reports describing your configuration and the gaps that it detected from information extracted from the VRA database. VRA allows you generate multiple reports at the same time. Also you can export the content into the MS Word, PDF, and MS Excel format. VRA Report Types VRA has the following reports: Scan Status System Event Log Ticket Details Storage Allocation Optimization Unreplicated Data on Replicated Hosts NetApp Filer Replication Summary Unsynchronized Remote Replication Old Replicas Standby Pairs and so on Report scheduling VRA also lets you schedule when reports are automatically generated and sent to one or more email destinations that you configure. New reports automatically generate each time before they are sent. You may also choose to save the generated reports in the file system and access them later. Learning More For more information on working with Reports, see “VRA reporting” in the Veritas Risk Advisor User’s Guide. You can access the User’s Guide and other VRA documentation in the Documents area of the SORT website.Configuring VCS with main.cf and types.cf files
From release 7.0 onwards, VCS is a component that is bundled with InfoScale Availability and InfoScale Enterprise products. When you configure VCS, the Veritas High Availability Engine needs to know definitions of the cluster, service groups, resources, and dependencies among service groups and resources. VCS uses the main.cf and types.cf configuration files to convey the cluster, service groups, and resource definitions. The main.cf file comprises include clauses and definitions for the cluster, systems, service groups, and resources. The SystemList attribute designates the priority order and the list of systems where a service group can come up online. The types.cf defines the standard resource types for the VCS engine and the data type that can be set for an attribute. It also defines the parameters that are passed to the VCS engine. These configuration files can be generated in a variety of ways. For more information, see VCS configuration language. By default, both these files reside in the /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config file. Only the first online system in the cluster reads the configuration files and keeps it in memory. Systems that are brought online after the first system derive configuration information from the existing systems in the cluster. You can also define environment variables to further configure VCS. For more information, see VCS environment variables. You can find other versions of Cluster Server on the SORT documentation page.
