Disaster Recovery User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- VMware vCloud Air - Disaster Recovery User's Guide
- Contents
- About this vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery User's Guide
- The Disaster Recovery Service
- Managing Disaster Recovery in vCloud Air
- Assign a User to the Roles for Disaster Recovery
- About Networks for the Disaster Recovery Service
- About Placeholders in vCloud Air
- Lease Times for Tests and Recoveries
- About Test Recoveries
- Test a Recovery
- Clean up a Test Recovery
- About Recovery to vCloud Air
- Recover a Virtual Machine
- Remove a Replication from vCloud Air
- About Failback for Virtual Machines to the Source Site
- Index
For information about testing a recovery by using the vSphere Web Client at your source site, see Test
Recovery to Cloud in vSphere Replication 6.0 for Disaster Recovery to Cloud for information.
Test a Recovery
To guarantee a recovery in the event of disruption at your source site, you should test a placeholder virtual
machine to ensure its integrity is intact.
Prerequisites
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Verify that a test network was configured.
See “About Networks for the Disaster Recovery Service,” on page 15 for information.
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You have the correct user permissions to perform the test.
See “Assign a User to the Roles for Disaster Recovery,” on page 14 for information.
Procedure
1 Click the Virtual Machine tab.
The table of virtual machines appears.
2 Select the virtual machine placeholder you want to test.
3 Click Test.
A confirmation dialog box appears.
4 Click Continue.
Testing a placeholder creates a test virtual machine using replicated data, reconfigures the test virtual
machine to connect to the test network, and applies guest customization to the virtual machine.
A successful test powers on the virtual machine. In the Virtual Machines table, the Recovery Status changes
from Placeholder to Test Complete.
Clean up a Test Recovery
After you test a recovery for a placeholder virtual machine, return the virtual machine to the ready state by
running a cleanup. Cleaning up a test recovery releases resources consumed by the test and prepares for the
next test, planned migration, or disaster recovery.
You can run a cleanup from the vSphere Web Client at your source site or from vCloud Air regardless of
where you initiated the preceding test.
For information about cleaning up a test recovery by using the vSphere Web Client, see Clean Up a Test
Recovery in vSphere Replication 6.0 for Disaster Recovery to Cloud.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you tested the placeholder virtual machine.
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You have the correct user permissions to clean up the test.
See “Assign a User to the Roles for Disaster Recovery,” on page 14 for information.
Procedure
1 Click the Virtual Machines tab.
The table of virtual machines appears.
2 Select the tested recovery you want to clean up.
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