Configure and perform a failover of the management applications in the SDDC from the protected to the recovery VMware Cloud Foundation instance. Failing over these applications maintains the operational state of the SDDC. You follow the step-by-step instructions to perform disaster recovery of management components running within VMware Cloud Foundation.

You fail over the following management applications:

Table 1. Support for Failover of the SDDC Management Applications

Management Application

Supports Failover

Clustered Workspace ONE Access

Yes

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

Yes

VMware Aria Operations analytics nodes

Yes

VMware Aria Operations cloud proxies

No

VMware Aria Automation

Yes

Prerequisites

Prerequisite

Value

Compute

The compute infrastructure in the recovery VMware Cloud Foundation instance must mirror the compute infrastructure in the protected VMware Cloud Foundation instance.

Storage

  • The storage configuration and capacity in the recovery VMware Cloud Foundation instance must mirror the storage configuration and capacity in the protected VMware Cloud Foundation instance.

  • Datastore space on the management cluster with sufficient capacity must be available for all the virtual machines of VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, and VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.

External services

Provide the following services in the recovery site.

  • Active Directory domain controller for each domain in the forest. Required for Workspace ONE Access to synchronize users when a domain controller in the protected site is unavailable.

  • DNS

  • NTP

  • SMTP

  • Syslog

Virtual infrastructure

  • Verify that the VMware Cloud Foundation versions are the same in both sites.

  • Verify that Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication are deployed in both VMware Cloud Foundation instances and paired.

  • Verify that the NSX load balancer is deployed and configured in both VMware Cloud Foundation instances.

  • Verify the NSX Edge cluster for North-South routing is deployed and configured in both VMware Cloud Foundation instances.