Veritas™ Resiliency Platform 2.2 Solutions for Microsoft Hyper-V

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Product(s): Resiliency Platform & CloudMobility (2.2)
  1. Section I. Overview of Resiliency Platform
    1. Overview of Resiliency Platform
      1.  
        About Veritas Resiliency Platform
      2.  
        About disaster recovery using Resiliency Platform
      3.  
        About Resiliency Platform features and components
      4.  
        About Resiliency Platform capabilities
      5.  
        About managing Hyper-V virtual machines using Resiliency Platform
      6.  
        About permissions for operations in the console
    2. Overview of recovery to on-premises data center
      1.  
        About recovery to premises using third-party replication
      2.  
        Using third-party replication for recovery to premises- an overview
    3. Overview of Amazon Web Services
      1.  
        About recovery to AWS using Resiliency Platform Data Mover
      2.  
        Using Resiliency Platform Data Mover for recovery to AWS- an overview
    4. Overview of vCloud
      1.  
        About recovery to vCloud using Resiliency Platform Data Mover
      2.  
        Using Resiliency Platform Data Mover for recovery to vCloud- an overview
  2. Section II. Preparing your environment
    1. Using array-based replication
      1.  
        Protecting Hyper-V virtual machines using array-based replication - an overview
      2.  
        Configuring Hyper-V virtual machines for disaster recovery using Hyper-V Replica
      3.  
        Configuring Hyper-V virtual machines for disaster recovery using EMC SRDF
      4.  
        Configuring Hyper-V virtual machines for disaster recovery using EMC RecoverPoint
      5.  
        Configuring Hyper-V virtual machines for disaster recovery using Hitachi TrueCopy Universal Replicator
      6.  
        Configuring Hyper-V virtual machines for disaster recovery using HPE 3PAR Remote Copy
      7.  
        Configuring Hyper-V virtual machines for disaster recovery using IBM SVC Global Mirror
      8.  
        Configuring Hyper-V virtual machines for disaster recovery using IBM XIV Remote Mirror
    2. Managing disaster recovery network mapping
      1.  
        Viewing and configuring network settings for a data center
      2.  
        Editing network settings for a data center
      3.  
        Removing network settings for a data center
      4. Configuring DNS server settings for a data center
        1.  
          Sample command for Windows keytab file
      5.  
        Setting up network mapping between production and recovery data centers
  3. Section III. Working with resiliency groups
    1. Managing resiliency groups
      1. About resiliency groups
        1.  
          Guidelines for organizing resiliency groups
      2.  
        About service objectives
      3.  
        Managing virtual machines for basic monitoring
      4.  
        Starting a resiliency group
      5.  
        Stopping a resiliency group
      6.  
        Displaying resiliency group information and status
      7.  
        Viewing resiliency group details
      8.  
        Editing a resiliency group
      9.  
        Deleting a resiliency group
    2. Configuring resiliency groups for remote recovery
      1.  
        Understanding the role of resiliency groups in disaster recovery operations
      2.  
        How Resiliency Platform configures disaster recovery protection for virtual machines
      3.  
        Prerequisites for configuring Hyper-V virtual machines for disaster recovery
      4.  
        Limitations for virtual machine disaster recovery
      5. Managing virtual machines for remote recovery (DR) using 3rd party replication technology
        1.  
          Target asset selection options
        2. Network customization options
          1.  
            Prerequisites for network customization
      6. Managing virtual machines for remote recovery (DR) in Amazon Web Services
        1.  
          AWS Customization options panel
      7.  
        Managing virtual machines for remote recovery (DR) in vCloud
  4. Section IV. Managing disaster recovery
    1. Rehearsing DR operations to ensure DR readiness
      1.  
        About ensuring the disaster recovery readiness of your assets
      2.  
        Rehearse operations - array-based replication
      3.  
        Prerequisites for rehearsal operation
      4.  
        Performing the rehearsal operation
      5.  
        Performing cleanup rehearsal
    2. Performing disaster recovery operations
      1.  
        Migrating a resiliency group of virtual machines
      2.  
        Taking over a resiliency group of virtual machines
      3.  
        Performing the resync operation
  5. Managing resiliency plans
    1.  
      About resiliency plans
    2. Creating a new resiliency plan template
      1. About manual task
        1.  
          Using manual tasks in resiliency plans
      2. About custom script
        1.  
          Using custom scripts in resiliency plans
    3.  
      Editing a resiliency plan template
    4.  
      Deleting a resiliency plan template
    5.  
      Viewing a resiliency plan template
    6.  
      Creating a new resiliency plan
    7.  
      Editing a resiliency plan
    8.  
      Deleting a resiliency plan
    9.  
      Executing a resiliency plan
    10.  
      Viewing a resiliency plan
    11.  
      Creating a schedule for a resiliency plan
    12.  
      Editing a schedule for a resiliency plan
    13.  
      Deleting a schedule for a resiliency plan
    14.  
      Viewing a schedule for a resiliency plan
  6. Monitoring risks, reports, and activites
    1.  
      About the Resiliency Platform Dashboard
    2.  
      Understanding asset types
    3.  
      Displaying an overview of your assets
    4.  
      About risk insight
    5.  
      Displaying risk information
    6.  
      Predefined risks in Resiliency Platform
    7.  
      Viewing the current risk report
    8.  
      Viewing the historical risk report
    9.  
      Viewing reports
    10.  
      Managing activities
    11.  
      Viewing activities
    12.  
      Aborting a running activity
  7. Managing evacuation plans
    1.  
      About evacuation plan
    2.  
      Generating an evacuation plan
    3.  
      Regenerating an evacuation plan
    4.  
      Performing evacuation
    5.  
      Performing rehearse evacuation
    6.  
      Performing cleanup evacuation rehearsal
  8. Appendix A. General troubleshooting
    1.  
      Viewing events and logs in the console
    2.  
      Events in Hyper-V virtual machines disaster discovery
    3.  
      Configure DR operation fails with an integration services error
    4.  
      Manually cleaning up virtual machines
    5.  
      Troubleshooting delete resiliency group operation
  9. Appendix B. Sample policy and trust relationships for AWS
    1.  
      Sample policy statement for AWS
    2.  
      Sample trust relationship for AWS
  10.  
    Glossary

Configuring Hyper-V virtual machines for disaster recovery using Hyper-V Replica

Prerequisites

To replicate data using Hyper-V Replica, you need to first configure Hyper-V Replica in your environment.

Refer to Microsoft documentation for configuring Hyper-V replica with and without Microsoft Failover clustering.

Hyper-V Replica with Microsoft Failover Clustering

This section lists the pre-requisites to enable data replication using Hyper-V Replica when the hosts are part of a Microsoft failover cluster.

  • Enable the Hyper-V and Failover Cluster roles on the Windows Server 2012 R2 hosts at the production and recovery (DR) data centers.

  • Ensure that the Microsoft failover cluster is already created using the required nodes at the production and recovery data centers.

  • In case of certificate-based authentication, ensure that you have specified broker-level certificate in the Hyper-V Replica broker replication settings.

  • Ensure that the cluster shared volumes (CSVs) are present at either the production or the recovery data centers' Microsoft failover clusters.

  • Ensure that all virtual machines are part of the Microsoft failover cluster. The data and configuration of the virtual machines will be stored on the cluster shared volume.

  • Ensure that Hyper-V Replica Broker is configured on a node of the Microsoft failover clusters at the production and recovery data centers.

  • On the Replica broker replication settings page, ensure to add the remote site broker details.

  • Ensure that replication is already enabled for the virtual machines at the primary site.

  • On Hyper-V host, verify whether the replication state for a given virtual machine is Replicating.

    Note:

    Disaster recovery for cloned virtual machines in Hyper-V replica is currently not supported.

Once you have performed the necessary configurations, proceed with Resiliency Platform specific tasks.

Resiliency Platform configurations:

  • Add Hyper-V virtual machines under respective data center using the + Hyper-V Server option in Settings > Infrastructure > Virtualization. Provide domain user's credentials if Hyper-V Replica is managed by a domain user. Note that the primary and remote hosts must not be the part of the same data center.

Hyper-V Replica without Microsoft Failover Clustering

This section lists the pre-requisites to enable data replication using Hyper-V Replica when Microsoft Failover Clustering is not used.

  • Enable the Hyper-V role on the Windows Server 2012 R2 hosts at the production and recovery (DR) data centers.

  • Ensure to create and configure the required virtual machines on the host at the production data center.

  • Ensure to enable the replication for the required virtual machine using the Hyper-V Manager at the production data center. It replicates the virtual machine boot disk (.VHDX) to the recovery data center.

Once you have performed the necessary configurations, proceed with Resiliency Platform specific tasks.

Resiliency Platform configurations:

  • Add Hyper-V virtual machines under respective data center using the + Hyper-V Server option in Settings > Infrastructure > Virtualization. Provide domain user's credential if Hyper-V Replica is managed by a domain user.