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Table Of Contents
- vCloud Suite Architecture Overview and Use Cases
- Contents
- About this book
- Introduction to vCloud Suite
- Architecture Overview
- Conceptual Design of a vCloud Suite Environment
- vCloud Suite Components in the Management Cluster
- Software-Defined Data Center Core Infrastructure
- Delivering an Infrastructure Service
- Delivering Platform as a Service
- Deploying vCloud Suite
- Install vCloud Suite Components
- Update vCloud Suite Components
- External Dependencies for Deploying vCloud Suite
- System Requirements of vCloud Suite Components
- Security Considerations
- Licensing
- vCloud Suite Licensing Model
- Activating vCloud Suite Components in the vSphere Web Client
- Activating vCloud Suite Components in the vSphere Client
- Add the vCloud Suite License by Using the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vSphere in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vCenter Operations Management Suite in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vCloud Networking and Security in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License Key to vCenter Site Recovery Manager
- Activating vCloud Suite Components by Using Their Own Licensing Interfaces
- Monitoring License Usage for vCloud Suite
- vCloud Suite Use Cases
- Index
In a production environment, you should verify that you tested the recovery before recovering the virtual
machine to the cloud.
Procedure
1 Log in to the vCloud Air Web console.
2 On the Dashboard tab, click the virtual data center that is enabled for disaster recovery.
3 Click the Virtual Machine tab.
The table of virtual machines appears.
4 Select the virtual machines ACME Corp VM 1 and ACME Corp VM 2 to recover.
5 From the menu, click Recovery.
The confirmation dialog box appears.
6 Click Continue.
Recovering the virtual machine has the following result:
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In the Virtual Machine tab, the Recovery Status changes from Placeholder or Test to Recovered.
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Connects the virtual machine to the production network.
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Powers on the virtual machine in the cloud.
After you recover a virtual machine to the cloud, it has the same capabilities that the virtual machine had at
the source site. You can access and operate your virtual machine recovered to the cloud for the time periods
listed in the vCloud Air documentation.
Infrastructure Provisioning
As a tenant administrator in ACME Corporation, you use the infrastructure service to deploy, configure,
and manage workloads, so that you can quickly address the IT needs of your organization.
You can use the vCloud Automation Center portal to provision workloads to a vSphere environment.
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