Veritas™ Resiliency Platform 2.2 Solutions for Applications
- Overview of Resiliency Platform
- Managing applications using Resiliency Platform
- Managing applications using Resiliency Platform
- Providing inputs for partially discovered applications
- Managing custom applications
- About application bundles
- Adding an application bundle to the Resiliency Manager
- Removing an application bundle
- Installing an application bundle on selected application hosts
- Uninstalling an application bundle from selected hosts
- Enabling and disabling application bundle on selected application hosts
- Managing auto-deploy for an application bundle
- Editing the discovery schedule for an application type
- Viewing the details of application types
- Viewing the applicable host details
- Managing InfoScale applications using Resiliency Platform
- Managing resiliency groups
- About resiliency groups
- About service objectives
- Managing applications for basic monitoring
- Starting a resiliency group
- Stopping a resiliency group
- Displaying resiliency group information and status
- Viewing InfoScale applications details
- Viewing resiliency group details
- Editing a resiliency group
- Deleting a resiliency group
- Preparing for disaster recovery configuration
- An overview of key steps required for disaster recovery of applications
- Prerequisites for configuring applications for disaster recovery
- An overview of key steps required for disaster recovery of InfoScale applications
- Prerequisites for configuring InfoScale applications for disaster recovery
- About replication technologies used in disaster recovery of applications
- Configuring DNS server settings for a data center
- Configuring resiliency groups for remote recovery
- Rehearsing DR operations to ensure DR readiness
- Performing disaster recovery operations
- Monitoring and reporting assets status
- Monitoring risks
- Managing activities and resiliency plans
- Managing activities
- Managing resiliency plans
- About resiliency plans
- Creating a new resiliency plan template
- Editing a resiliency plan template
- Deleting a resiliency plan template
- Viewing a resiliency plan template
- Creating a new resiliency plan
- Editing a resiliency plan
- Deleting a resiliency plan
- Executing a resiliency plan
- Viewing a resiliency plan
- Creating a schedule for a resiliency plan
- Editing a schedule for a resiliency plan
- Deleting a schedule for a resiliency plan
- Viewing a schedule for a resiliency plan
- Managing evacuation plans
- Appendix A. Troubleshooting
- Glossary
Configuring applications for disaster recovery using EMC SRDF replication
This section lists the pre-requisites to enable data replication using EMC SRDF when the hosts are not a part of a Microsoft failover cluster.
Ensure that EMC Symmetrix Solutions Enabler (version v7.4, or later) is installed on a host and the SRDF device groups are already set up for the replication between the primary and remote arrays.
Ensure that EMC Symmetrix Gatekeeper device is present on the array control host. You can designate any host including the Hyper-V server as the array control host.
Note:
The replicated and primary LUNs must be on different hosts from different data centers.
Ensure that you have created the volumes on the primary Hyper-V host where the LUNs are read and write enabled. Veritas Resiliency Platform supports only one volume per replicated disk. Windows Storage Space Storage Pool is not supported.
Ensure that you have configured application at the production data centre under the Hyper-V Manager and kept the data files on the replicated volumes.
Ensure that the respective remote disks (Read only - R2 remote disk and snapshot) are in the offline state on the Hyper-V server at the recovery data center. And also verify that no drive letter is assigned to the volumes present on these offline disks.
Note:
To perform the Rehearse operation, you must add the snapshot devices to the SRDF device group at the recovery data center, and thereafter map them to the application hosts at the recovery data center.
Once you have performed the necessary configurations, proceed with disaster recovery specific tasks.
Veritas Resiliency Platform configurations:
Add the hosts to the Infrastructure Management Server (IMS) using the + Add Application host operation.
Add the host where the SRDF device groups are configured, to the Infrastructure Management Server (IMS) using the + Discovery Host operation.
Add Symmetrix enclosure using the + EMC Enclosure option. Provide the discovery host name and the SYMCLI location on this discovery host. This operation returns the list of Symmetrix arrays (local and remote) accessible to the host. To configure disaster recovery for applications, select one or more local arrays.
Default SymCLI location on Linux host
/opt/emc/SYMCLI/bin/
Default SymCLI location on Windows host
C:\Program Files\EMC\SYMCLI\bin
Note:
Any physical or virtual machine can be designated as the array control host, including the virtual machine inside VMware ESX server that has EMC Symmetrix Gatekeeper device visibility.
Perform add discovery host and add enclosure operations for the IMS at the disaster recovery data center as well.
Limitations
EMC SRDF LUN-based replication, without device group, and replication in the adaptive copy mode are not supported.
If the application hosts are inside the virtual machines, the replicated data disks must be mapped to these hosts in Raw mode only. Virtual disks are not supported.
Logical grouping of disks, Windows Server Storage space storage pool, is not supported.