Aria Automation Suite Disaster Recovery by Using Site Recovery Manager describes how to implement and use Site Recovery Manager with vSphere Replication or Array-Based replication to protect the Aria Automation Suite components.

The following Aria Automation Suite components were tested for disaster recovery by using Site Recovery Manager 8.2:

Products

Versions

VMware Aria Automation

Note:

VMware Aria Automation 8.0 is not supported for use in disaster-recovery scenarios

7.x, 8.0.1

VMware Aria CloudClient

4.5 and later

VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator

Note:

VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.0 is not supported for use in disaster-recovery scenarios

7.x, 8.0.1

Aria Operations

6.6.0 and later

VMware Aria Operations for Logs

4.6 and later

The following products were used for implementing disaster recovery for Aria Automation Suite:

  • VMware vSphere Replication 8. 2

  • VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.2

  • Array-based replication

    • EMC RecoverPoint Storage Replication Adapter

    • vCenter 6.5 and 6.7

For more information about Aria Automation Suite components and their interoperability with Site Recovery Manager, see VMware Product Interoperability Matrices.

For information about installing, upgrading, and configuring VMware Site Recovery Manager, see the VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.1 Documentation.

To protect the Aria Automation Suite components, you must configure the Site Recovery Manager tool and the Aria Automation Suite components in the following order:

  1. Configuring Site Recovery Manager. You must configure Site Recovery Manager by following the guidelines to protect your Aria Automation Suite components.

  2. Configuring VMware Aria Suite Components for Disaster Recovery. You must configure the Aria Automation Suite components that you want to protect by using Site Recovery Manager.

  3. Testing and Executing a Recovery Plan. You must test the recovery plans that you have created to verify that the recovery is successfully completed without any data loss, before a disaster recovery situation occurs.