User guide

Chapter 7. Performing a Disaster Recovery
When an interruption or disaster affects one or more of your critical systems, use
the VSR service. It creates a virtual machine in the VSR solution infrastructure that
effectively behaves and operates precisely as the original. This process is called
recovery.
Before you begin
Perform disaster recovery only after you conduct testing and it has ended
successfully, completed verification, and any required cleanup. See Chapter 4, “DR
Test, Verify, Report, Cleanup, and Recover Cycle,” on page 23.
Note: The Disaster Recovery feature is set by contractual agreement and managed
by the IBM VSR Administrator.
Procedure
1. Select one of the following optional means to initiate a recovery under the
various conditions cited.
Condition Action
A. A Server is selected in the Main Site
tree view.
Click the Live Recovery button on the main Site
window.
B. A Server Group is selected in the
Main Site tree view.
Click the Group Recovery button on the main
site window. See “Recovering a Server Group”
on page 38.
C. Either condition A or B. Click the Recover menu item on the left side of
the VSR application.
Note: This selection allows the user to select a
Point-in-Time recovery point when available.
2. In all instances, VSR displays the following screen. If you access the screen
through the Main Site window, the correct servers for recovery are preselected.
See Figure 7 on page 15 in “Logging in to the VSR Web Portal” on page 13.
© Copyright IBM Corp. 2014 33