Administrator Guide

Recovering SMA

SMA reduces an administrator’s burden by providing the ability to automate many manual tasks. If all options for recovery from application

failures are exhausted, you can recover SMA data to restore functionality.

Recovering the SMA database

1 From the VMM console, shut down the VM that is hosting SMA (<

Prex

>APA01).

2 Use the steps in Recovering a database to its original location to recover the following SMA database. To minimize data loss, select the

latest recovery point.

Table 26. SMA Database Name

SQL Server Instance Database Name

SQLIN02 SMA

3 From the VMM console, restart the APA01 VM.

4 Detect and repair any data consistency issues by following the required steps in How to use data consistency runbooks.

Recovering the APA VM—with SMA, SPF

1 In the VMM console, in the VMs and Services workspace, use the Connect via Console option to log on to the <

Prex

>APA01 VM.

2 Stop the Runbook service—rbsvc. To do this, start a Windows PowerShell session, and then run the following command:

Stop-Service rbsvc

The service can take up to 20 minutes to stop. Wait for the service to stop before you continue to the next step.

3 From the VMM console, shut down the VM.

4 Use the steps in Recovering a VM to its original location to recover the VM. To minimize data loss, select the latest recovery point.

5 From the VMM console, start the VM.

The Runbook service starts automatically.

6 Detect and repair any data consistency issues by following the steps in How to use data consistency runbooks.

Recovering SPF

If all options of recovering from SPF failures are exhausted, you can use DPM to recover SPF data to restore SPF functionality.

To recover the SPF database:

1 From the VMM console, shut down the VM that is hosting SPF (<

Prex

>APA01).

2 Use the steps in Recovering a database to its original location to recover the following SPF database.

Table 27. SPF Database Name

SQL Server Instance Database Name

SQLIN02 SCSPFDB

3 From the VMM console, start the VM.

4 Detect and repair any data consistency issues by following the required steps in How to use data consistency runbooks.

Operations