In last post of this series,we learnt about Recovery options available with vCloud Air Disaster Recovery and we discussed about Test recovery and actual recovery and saw the use case for both type.
In this post we will discuss about failback of a VM (which is recovered in vCloud Air) to on-premise. If you have landed straight to this post accidentally then I will urge you to check out previous blog posts which I have wrote on vCloud Air Disaster Recovery.
Disaster Recovery to vCloud Air is now a tested and reliable solution and helps customer to replicate their critical workloads to vCloud Air so that in event of Disaster in on-premise, customer can recover their workloads and continue their operation without much impact to business.
In this post we will learn how to recover VM’s in vCloud Air in event of disaster or in case when scheduled maintenace is planned in on-premise. For those who are not much familiar with what is vCloud Air Disaster Recovery solution, I urge you to read about that from below links:
In my last post Disaster Recovery with vcloud Air we discussed what is vcloud Air Disaster Recovery service and saw how to prepare your infrastructure for replicating VM’s to Vcloud Air.
This post is continuation of my last post where I will be demonstrating how to replicate VM from on premise datacenter to vCloud Air. Let’s jump into action straightaway.
1: Login to your on-premise vSphere Web-Client and select the VM which you want to replicate, right click on it and chose All vSphere Replication Action > Configure Replication
Why you need DR solution?
Business continuity and disaster recovery are paramount for ensuring your business critical environment, data, and online presence are available with minimal downtime. The availability services offered on vCloud Air help ensure that your data is protected, recoverable, and accessible by you and your customers.
What is VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery Solution?
VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery is a recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) offering. It provides simple, affordable protection in the cloud for your vSphere environment. It leverages vSphere Replication to provide powerful, asynchronous replication capabilities at the hypervisor layer.