To migrate the virtual machines of the analytics cluster of VMware Aria Operations from the protected to the recovery VMware Cloud Foundation instance under planned circumstances, run the recovery plan for the VMware Aria Operations analytics cluster.

Procedure

  1. Log in to Site Recovery Manager in the protected VMware Cloud Foundation instance at https://<srm_fqdn>/dr as [email protected].
  2. In the existing site pair, click View details.
  3. Click the Recovery plans tab and click the recovery plan for the VMware Aria Operations analytics cluster according to your VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook.
  4. Click the Recovery steps tab and click Run.

    The Recovery wizard appears.

  5. On the Confirmation options page, configure these settings and click Next.

    Setting

    Value

    I understand that this process will permanently alter the virtual machines and infrastructure of both the protected and recovery datacenters.

    Selected

    Recovery type

    Planned migration
  6. To initiate the planned migration of VMware Aria Operations, on the Ready to complete page, click Finish.

    This operations takes several minutes to complete.

  7. When prompted, verify that the load balancer virtual server for VMware Aria Operations is available and responds to ping requests, and click Dismiss.

    If you failed over the NSX load balancer, the NSX load balancer is running in the recovery VMware Cloud Foundation instance. Otherwise, the NSX load balancer is still running in the protected VMware Cloud Foundation instance.

  8. When prompted, verify that the clustered Workspace ONE Access instance is available at https://clustered_workspace_one_access_fqdn/admin, and click Dismiss.
  9. When prompted, power off all running cloud proxy nodes.
    1. Log in to the management domain vCenter Server in the protected VMware Cloud Foundation instance at https://<protected_instance_vcenter_server_fqdn>/ui as [email protected].
    2. In the VMs and Templates inventory, navigate to the remote collector virtual machine folder.
    3. Right-click each remote collector virtual machine and select Power > Shut down guest OS.
    4. On the Confirm guest shut down dialog box, click Yes.
    5. Repeat these steps for all remote collector nodes in the recovery VMware Cloud Foundation instance.
    6. On the recovery plan prompt, click Dismiss.
  10. When prompted, monitor the status of each analytics cluster node.
    1. Log in to the primary VMware Aria Operations node by using the administrator interface at https://<aria_operations_primary_node_fqdn>/admin with a user assigned the Administrator role.
    2. On the System status page, under Nodes in the VMware Aria Operations cluster, locate the node.
    3. Monitor the node until the State becomes Not Running and the Status becomes Offline.
    4. On the recovery plan prompt, click Dismiss.
    5. Repeat these steps for all analytics cluster nodes.
  11. When prompted, power on all VMware Aria Operations cloud proxies.
    1. Log in to the management domain vCenter Server in the protected VMware Cloud Foundation instance at https://<protected_instance_vcenter_server_fqdn>/ui as [email protected].
    2. In the VMs and Templates inventory, navigate to the remote collector virtual machine folder.
    3. Right-click each remote collector virtual machine and select Power > Power On.
    4. Repeat these steps for all remote collector nodes in the recovery VMware Cloud Foundation instance.
    5. On the recovery plan prompt, click Dismiss.
  12. Monitor the status of each cloud proxy node.
    1. Log in to the primary VMware Aria Operations node by using the administrator interface at https://<aria_operations_primary_node_fqdn>/admin with a user assigned the Administrator role.
    2. On the System status page, under Nodes in the VMware Aria Operations cluster, locate the node.
    3. Monitor all cloud proxies until their State becomes Not Running and the Status becomes Offline.
  13. In the administrator interface of the primary VMware Aria Operations node, on the System status page, under Cluster status, click Bring cluster online.

    This operations takes several minutes to complete.

  14. On the Recovery steps tab, monitor the progress of the recovery plan until all recovery steps complete successfully.

What to do next

  1. Verify that VMware Aria Operations is operational. See Operational Verification of Intelligent Operations Management for VMware Cloud Foundation in the Intelligent Operations Management for VMware Cloud Foundation validated solution.

  2. Prepare VMware Aria Operations for failback by reprotecting the virtual machines of the analytics cluster in Site Recovery Manager. See Reprotect VMware Aria Operationsfor Site Protection and Disaster Recovery for VMware Cloud Foundation.