Plan for DR by recording vital information. In the event of a major outage, you will need this information to recover your systems. Some items are only required for particular DR scenarios. Record the following information on a local drive outside
PowerProtect Data Manager:
Steps
If
PowerProtect Data Manager is deployed to vSphere, record the port groups:
Log in to the vSphere client.
Right-click the name of the virtual appliance and select
Edit Settings.
Record the port group settings that are assigned to
PowerProtect Data Manager.
This information is useful when restoring to the same VMware environment.
Record the
PowerProtect Data Manager FQDN.
Log in to the
PowerProtect Data Manager user interface as a user with the
Administrator role.
Record the
PowerProtect Data Manager version and build numbers.
Customer Support can provide this information, which is not mandatory.
Click
, select
Disaster Recovery, and then click
Configuration.
Record whether server DR storage uses NFS or
DD Boost.
NOTE:NFS is only available for deployments of
PowerProtect Data Manager that have been updated from version 19.14 or earlier where NFS was configured. Only
DD Boost is available for new deployments of
PowerProtect Data Manager.
Record the
protection storage system IP address or FQDN.
If you configured server DR replication, record the FQDN for the replication target.
If you use NFS for server DR storage, record the NFS export path.
If you use
DD Boost for server DR storage, perform the following substeps:
Connect to the
PowerProtect Data Manager console and change to the root user.
Change directory:
cd /usr/local/brs/puppet/scripts
Obtain and record the server DR
DD Boost credentials: