Execute recovery plans
UIS Manager provides the following recovery plan execution options:
Testing recovery plans—Simulate the process of recovering services on a recovery site upon protected site failure to verify the correctness of a recovery plan. The test does not affect the services provided by the protected site and is manually started and stopped.
Executing scheduled recovery—Shut down the protected VMs in the protected site and replicate their data to the recovery site for maintenance purposes when both sites are operating correctly. The VMs are brought up after data replication is finished.
Executing failure recovery—Recover the protected VMs in the recovery site when the protected site fails. This operation cannot restore the protected VMs to the exact same state they were in when the failure occurred because the data of the VMs is from the last data replication.
Executing reverse recovery—Restore the protected VMs in the recovery site to its original protected site when the protected site recovers without data loss. The VMs in the recovery site are shut down and not available, and the storage devices are unmounted from the VMs.
Clearing backup data—Clear the backup data (recovered VMs and temporary data) in the recovery site after recovered data is restored from the recovery site to the protected site by using a PE reverse recovery tool. This option applies to a disk backup protection group. (Applicable to only disk backup.)
Restrictions and guidelines
Make sure the recovery plan you use is in Ready or Initialize state.
Scheduled recovery or reverse recovery fails if an active VM in a non protection group references a CD-ROM file in a protection group storage.
For recovery plan testing or execution to succeed, make sure the backup state of the protected production node/VM is running (idle) and the disk backup state is Imaging Finished or N/A.
Test a recovery plan
On the top navigation bar, click Services, and then select SRM > Recovery Plans from the left navigation pane.
Click the Start Testing icon
for a recovery plan.
In the dialog box that opens, select an execution mode, and then click OK.
To view test details, click the Recovery Tasks tab and click the execution time link for the recover task.
To stop the test after it succeeds, click Stop Testing on the recovery plan summary page.
Execute scheduled recovery
On the top navigation bar, click Services, and then select SRM > Recovery Plans > recovery plan name from the left navigation pane.
Click Scheduled Recovery.
In the dialog box that opens, select an execution mode, and then click OK. For more information about the execution mode, see "Parameters."
Execute scheduled recovery in bulk
On the top navigation bar, click Services, and then select SRM > Recovery Plans from the left navigation pane.
Select the target recovery plans, click Batch Actions, and then select Scheduled Recovery.
In the dialog box that opens, click OK.
Execute failure recovery
On the top navigation bar, click Services, and then select SRM > Recovery Plans > recovery plan name from the left navigation pane.
Click Failure Recovery.
In the dialog box that opens, select an execution mode, and then click OK. For more information about the execution mode, see "Parameters."
Execute failure recovery in bulk
On the top navigation bar, click Services, and then select SRM > Recovery Plans from the left navigation pane.
Select the target recovery plans, click Batch Actions, and then select Failure Recovery.
In the dialog box that opens, click OK.
Execute reverse recovery
On the top navigation bar, click Services, and then select SRM > Recovery Plans > recovery plan name from the left navigation pane.
Click Reverse Recovery.
In the dialog box that opens, select an execution mode, and then click OK. For more information about the execution mode, see "Parameters."
Clear backup data
On the top navigation bar, click Services, and then select SRM > Recovery Plans > recovery plan name from the left navigation pane.
Click Clear Backup Data.
In the dialog box that opens, click OK.
Execute reverse recovery in bulk
On the top navigation bar, click Services, and then select SRM > Recovery Plans from the left navigation pane.
Select the target recovery plans, click Batch Actions, and then select Reverse Recovery.
In the dialog box that opens, click OK.
Parameters
Execution Mode: Select an execution mode.
Execute Plan: Select this option to execute the recovery plan by following the recovery steps.