When a disaster occurs on primary location, you recover the Nova instances and Cinder volumes in the target disaster recovery site using SRM.

Note: You do not have to recover virtual machine of the Cinder volume in attached status.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Site Recovery manager in the target site.
  2. Under Replications, select the virtual machine and click RECOVER.
  3. Under Recover virtual machine, select Recovery options.
    1. Select Synchronize recent changes.
    2. Unselect Power on the virtual machine after recovery.
    3. Click Next.
  4. In the Folder section, specify a folder for the virtual machine at the recovery site and click Next.
  5. In the Resource section, specify the resource for the virtual machine at the recovery site and click Next.
    Note: The target cluster must have one-to-one mapping with the source compute cluster.
  6. In the Ready to complete section, review your selected settings and click Finish.
  7. For Nova instance VM, select the network from the Network adapter 1 tab and select Connect At Power On. For Cinder volume shadow VM, you can skip this step.
  8. Power on the Nova instance VMs. For Cinder volume shadow VM, leave it as power off.