Install Live Site Recovery on the Protected and Recovery Sites

When a catastrophe occurs, components in the Management Pod must be available to recover and continue the Telco Cloud Infrastructure based services. Install and configure Live Site Recovery to automate the recovery of the Management Pod in the event of a disaster.

Prerequisites

• Download VMware Live Site Recovery and VMware Replication Appliances.

• Verify that AD, DNS, and NTP servers are configured.

• Verify that the FQDN of the SRM server is registered with the DNS server for forward and reverse proxy. Verify that the FQDN and IP address of the SRM server are resolved. Do this on both the protected and recovery sites.

• Verify that the following requirements are met for Live Site Recovery:

  • Prerequisites and Best Practices for Live Site Recovery Server Installation

  • Live Site Recovery System Requirements

Procedure

1. Deploy the Live Site Recovery Appliance on both the protected and recovery sites. For more information, see How do I set up VMware Live Site Recovery.
2. On the protected site, deploy the Live Site Recovery server SRM_PROTECTION in the management cluster MGMT_CLUSTER on the vCenter MGMT_VC.
3. On the recovery site, deploy the Live Site Recovery SRM_RECOVERY in the disaster recovery cluster DR_CLUSTER on the vCenter DR_VC.