You can test or run the configured recovery plan.

Procedure

  1. In the vSphere Client or the vSphere Web Client, click Site Recovery > Open Site Recovery.
  2. On the Site Recovery home tab, select a site pair and click View Details.
  3. Select the Recovery Plans tab, select the vIDM LCM vRA vRO RP recovery plan, and click Run.
  4. Review the summary information and click Finish to start the recovery plan.
  5. Click the Recovery Steps tab to monitor the progress of the recovery plan.
  6. After completing the manual task described in the prompt, click Dismiss.
  7. If Identity Manager cluster deployment is configured by VMware Aria Lifecycle Manager, complete the manual steps described in the next prompt, and click Dismiss.
  8. When prompt to perform vIDM inventory sync, synchronize the vCenter Server inventory with VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager:
    1. Log in to VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager and navigate to Lifecycle Operations > Environments
    2. Click View Details on the Identity Manager globalenvironment. Open the actions menu and click Trigger Inventory Sync.
    3. Click Submit.

      The inventory sync request will first fail, while trying to discover the Identity Manager VM(s) on the failed vCenter Server site

    4. Click Retry, provide the new vCenter Server site access details, and click Submit.


    5. Wait until the request is completed. To verify that VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager must be able to manage Identity Manager again, click Export Configuration > Advanced action, and verify that the vCenter Server details are updated with the new vCenter Server site.
  9. When prompt to perform Wait for vRA services, verify the state of the VMware Aria Automation services.
    1. Using SSH, log in to one of the VMware Aria Automation nodes, and run the vracli status services command to verify that all services are ready.
      Note:

      To monitor the initialization for all VMware Aria Automation pods, you can run the kubectl -n prelude get pods command.

  10. When the recovery plan reaches the vRA inventory sync prompt step
    1. Log in to VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager and navigate to Lifecycle Operations > Environments.
    2. Click View Details on the VMware Aria Automation environment, open the actions menu, and click Trigger Inventory Sync:
    3. Click Submit.

      The inventory sync request will first fail, while trying to discover the VMware Aria Automation VMs on the failed vCenter Server site.

    4. Click Retry, provide the new vCenter Server site access details, and click Submit.
    5. Wait until the request is completed. To verify that VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager must be able to manage VMware Aria Automation again, click Export Configuration > Advanced action, and verify that the vCenter Server details and VM IDs are updated with the new vCenter Server site.
    6. Click Dismiss to resume the recovery plan.
  11. When the recovery plan is completed, you can start using the recovered VMware Aria Automation.
  12. Validate the recovered VMware Aria Automation environment
    1. Login to the VMware Aria Automation portal with Active Directory user
    2. Navigate to Cloud Assembly > Infastructure and verify that all available Cloud Accounts and Integrations are operational and when relevant recent data-collection has completed successfully.
    3. Navigate to Service Broker > Catalog and ensure all previous catalog items are present.
    4. Request some catalog items from different content sources (VMware Cloud Templates, VMware Aria Orchestrator workflow, etc.) and verify the successful completion.