As an administrator you want to protect the YourCo company website environment. In this scenario, you use array-based replication to protect the virtual machines from Protected Site A to Recovery Site B and reprotect them back.

Before you begin

  • Verify that you have Site Recovery Manager server instances installed on both sites and that they are paired.

  • Verify that you have array pairing configured for the datastores you want to protect.

  • Verify that you installed and configured vRealize Orchestrator on each Site Recovery Manager site.

  • Verify that you installed and configured your vRealize Orchestrator plug-in for Site Recovery Manager plug-in on each Site Recovery Manager site.

About this task

In each site you have vCenter Server instances, paired Site Recovery Manager instances, and the following components.

Table 1. YourCo Environment Details

Object

Description

Datastore A

A datastore on Protected Site A, configured for array-based replication with Datastore B on Recovery Site B.

Production A

A network on Protected Site A, used by the virtual machines on Protected Site A.

Host A

A host on Protected Site A.

Folder A

A folder that contains the virtual machines on Protected Site A.

YourCo DB VM

A virtual machine on Protected Site A that contains the database for the YourCo website environment.

YourCo App VM

A virtual machine on Protected Site A that contains the application services for the YourCo website.

YourCo Web VM

A virtual machine on Protected Site A that contains the web services for the YourCo website.

Datastore B

A datastore on Recovery Site B, configured for array-based replication with Datastore A.

Production B

A network on Recovery Site B.

Host B

A host on Recovery Site B.

Folder B

A folder on Recovery Site B.

In the current user scenario, you use the Site Recovery Manager plug-in workflows shown in the following figure to create inventory mappings, a protection group for array-based replication, and test and run a recovery plan. After you run the recovery plan, you run a workflow to restore your environment on the protected site.