Fourth article about VAO 3.0 and the second use case.
How to use a Backup Job to implement a DR scenario with VAO. In this article, I don’t cover the mandatory step related to VMs tag.
If you need a guide please refer to my previous writes (Baseline 1 & 2)
The main steps are:
- Creating a Failover location where the VMs can be restarted
- Setting up scope
- Creating the orchestration plan
Let’s start!
1 . Creating the Failover location
Pictures 1 to 3 show how easier it is to set Name, computers, and storage resources.
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Picture 4 shows the maximum storage % that can be used by Restore task and picture 5 shows if the Instant VM recovery has to be enabled.
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Picture 6 shows one of my favorites VAO options.
Why? Because it allows VAO to be implemented where the primary backup job has been copied to a second location.
To be clearer: the VBR backup copy job allows to copy backup data to the secondary site. If there are VMware hosts, it’s possible to create a DR site just restoring data from backup copy job.
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Picture 7 shows how to twin the production with DR networks (the previous step sets-up the re-IP addressing just for windows VMs)
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Picture 8 shows the GDPR option
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2. Setting up scope
Pictures 9 to 12 show the main points:
To set-up a scope, check-up the VM Groups, select the Recovery Location and which plan steps have to be added. (all details are available at Baseline articles).
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3. Creating the Orchestration Plan
From Picture 13 to 16 the main points to set up the Restore Plan
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Please find here an example of Readiness check Reports