In-place Recovery Plans

The next task for you is to create a new Recovery Plan through the Rubrik Security Cloud in a few steps to ensure automated recovery of the ZFG applications in case of disaster or ransomware.

If you haven't already connected to the Rubrik Security Cloud, please refer to the Lab Environment page for more details.

Once you're logged in, click the app-tray icon in the top right of the user interface, then select Orchestrated Recovery.

Launch Orchestrated Application Recovery from the app-tray

Click the Recovery Plans tab. From the left panel, select the In-Place Recovery radio button.

Recovery Plans

Click the In-Place Recovery Plan from the Create dropdown menu.

Create Recovery Plan

You will be taken into the wizard as shown below. Specify the Name as Demo and select the Rubrik-Demo1 as Source Cluster and click Next.

Define Recovey Plan details

Select zaffre-webapp-01 and zaffre-db-01, then click Next.

Select VMs for the Recovery Plan

Select the priority group for the boot order of the virtual machine and click Next.

Select boot order

You can add the path to scripts to run on the virtual machine after failover. This is optional. For now, click Next.

Add Postscripts

Review the details and click Create.

Review Recovery Plan details

Click Close after the Recovery Plans is created.

Recovery Plan created

Explore the different tabs for the Recovery Plan. After reviewing the details, click on Recovery Plans on the top left to see the list of all the Recovery Plans.

Explore Recovery Plan

CAUTION: A VM may only be a member of one Recovery Plan at any given time. This is by design as failover or in-place recovery actions may be executed against more than one Recovery Plan at a time. In later releases of Orchestrated Application Recovery, it is planned to allow more coordinated orchestration across multiple Recovery Plans at once to ensure applications may be failed over or locally recovered in a specific order to better accommodate any interdependencies they may have with one another. Once a VM is added to a Recovery Plan, it will no longer show up as an available selection during subsequent Recovery Plan creation actions.

Recovery Plans can be scaled to 100s of VMs to enable fast VM recovery across sites or in place. Post recovery scripts can be added to automate the VM and application changes.