Veritas™ Resiliency Platform 2.2 Solutions for VMware
- Section I. Overview of Resiliency Platform
- Overview of Resiliency Platform
- Overview of Resiliency Platform Data Mover
- Overview of recovery to on-premises data center
- Managing assets protected by NetBackup
- Overview of Amazon Web Services
- Overview of vCloud
- Section II. Preparing your environment
- Using array-based replication
- Using Veritas Resiliency Platform Data Mover
- Managing disaster recovery network mapping
- Managing Replication Gateway pairs
- Using array-based replication
- Section III. Working with resiliency groups
- Managing resiliency groups
- Configuring resiliency groups for remote recovery
- Managing virtual machines for remote recovery (DR) using 3rd party replication technology
- Managing virtual machines for remote recovery (DR) using Resiliency Platform Data Mover
- Managing virtual machines for remote recovery (DR) in Amazon Web Services
- Managing resiliency groups
- Section IV. Managing disaster recovery
- Rehearsing DR operations to ensure DR readiness
- Performing disaster recovery operations
- Rehearsing DR operations to ensure DR readiness
- Managing resiliency plans
- Creating a new resiliency plan template
- Monitoring risks, reports, and activities
- Managing evacuation plans
- Appendix A. General troubleshooting
- Resolving the Admin Wait state
- Appendix B. Sample policy and trust relationships for AWS
Restoring data using NetBackup
Using Resiliency Platform console, you can recover VMware virtual machines that are protected by NetBackup and managed using a service objective where the data availability mode is Copy.
You can choose from the most recent successful backup image or another available backup image.
You can restore data on VMware virtual machines in the same data center or in a remote data center.
A virtual machine is restored using the selected backup image at selected data center, which could be the same data center or a remote data center. Before that, the virtual machine whose data is being restore is stopped and unregistered. Virtual machines are unregistered only if the restore is on a remote data center.
The network settings of the virtual machine are configured as per the subnet mapping, switch or port mapping as specified during the configure for remote recovery operation. Finally the virtual machine is up and running at the recovery/selected data center.
The state of the virtual machine is Deleted/Unavailable.
If a virtual machine is deleted, you can choose the latest backup copy or any previous backup to restore the virtual machine on the required data center.
After configuring a resiliency group for recovery using a service objective where the data availability mode is Copy, it might take some time for the backup images to reflect in the Restore wizard.
When you choose the Local recovery of hosts service objective, then during the restore operation remote data center is not displayed. Using this service objective you can choose the virtual machines whose data you want to restore irrespective of the number of virtual machine in the resiliency group.
For Local and remote recovery of hosts service objective, if virtual machines are registered in the target data center, then restore is of the type local. If virtual machines are not registered in the target data center, then the restore is of the type remote.
After the restore operation is successfully completed, you may refresh the NetBackup master server to discover new backup policies. Or you may wait for the scheduled discovery to complete.
Consider the following before running the restore operation:
If a virtual machine is already present on the recovery site and is online, then the data on the virtual machine is not overwritten during the restore operation.
If the virtual machine is registered but in offline state, then the virtual machine is deleted. A new virtual machine is created and the backup image is restored on that machine.
If the virtual machine is present in the inventory but not registered, then the virtual machine is deleted. A new virtual machine is created and the backup image is restored on that machine.
If the virtual machine is not registered and is not present in the inventory, then a new virtual machine is created and the backup image is restored on that virtual machine.
A successfully restored image is tagged. Hover the mouse on the tag to view additional information such as the NetBackup master server name, the image type (full or incremental), and the last test date and time.
To restore virtual machine data at the recovery data center
- Prerequisites
The resiliency group that contains the VMware virtual machines must be protected using the service objective activated for copy based recovery.
The IMS, ESX server, and the vCenter on the recovery data center must be connected to the NetBackup master server.
Ensure that the state of NetBackup master server is Connected which means that the notification channel is working.
- Navigate
Assets > Resiliency Groups tab
- Go to the details page for the resiliency group with the virtual machines that you want to recover and select Restore.
- In the Restore Resiliency Group panel do the following and click Next.
Review the target data center.
Select Confirm outage of assets for resiliency group to confirm that there is an outage on the selected data center.
This is not applicable if the restore is of the type local.
Choose the backup image to be used. You can choose from the latest image or any other available backup from the specified time range.
To choose from a specific time range, select the date and the time range. Then select the hours or minutes since the start time. Click Search.
- Click Finish.
Use
(bottom pane) > to view the details of this task in a graphical representation.On successful completion of the restore operation, verify that the selected virtual machines are online.