Best Practices for HPE Simplivity RapidDR Failover/Failback

[Maish]

Hi Mates,

i wish to know that, is Vcenter of Source and Recovery Site must be available during the disater, to run any of the SimplVity RapiDR functionalities 

if Yes then pls help with the hpe documnet link 

if No then pls let usk know the possible cause of RDR failover execution failoure , pls refer the below details for environments 

We have Site -A, B, C having 4node cluster on each site , Site-A, B, C are in same SVT federation , all the site have its own vcenter, all the vcenter are configured in enhance link mode , from any vcenter console we able to see the details for all the 3 vcenter related to site A, B, C, We are able to create backup policy where we can see the datastore with respect to site A, B, C 

We have demonstrated  the successfull failover/failback Test as well Execution to customer while we have all the vCenter availibility , but not able to execute the failover/failback in case unavailibilty of source vCneter where as Failover Test has susscessfully completed in same situation.

we need a document reference about :- why the test failover getting successfull during source vCenter unabaility but fail to execute the failover execution.

SVT OVC version- 5.0.0

VMWare Vsphere version- 8.0

Vcenter version- 8.0 

Rapid DR Version -3.6.0

Rapid DR is i stalled on Windows Server 2022

VMWare Power CLI version -13.2.1

Regards,

Manish Kumar

[Mahesh202]

Hi Maish

I want to share some video links that might help you Create, Test failover/failback, and Execute failover/failback on HPE SimpliVity RapidDR.

1.) https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/videoDisplay?videoId=vtc00030691en_us

2.) https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/videoDisplay?videoId=vtc00030716en_us

3.) https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/videoDisplay?videoId=vtc00030732en_us

4.) https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/videoDisplay?videoId=vtc00030748en_us

5.) https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/videoDisplay?videoId=vtc00030749en_us

Hope this helps.!!

Regards
Mahesh.

[Maish]

Hi Mahesh,

Thanks for your links, but i have already gone thorugh with theses links but unable to get the answer of my query. you must read the question line by line then only u can understand the situation.. Sorry Dont take otherwise , i wish to get any resolution for this only.

Kudos to your reply..

[support_s]

System recommended content:

1. HPE SimpliVity RapidDR 3.1 Guide

2. HPE SimpliVity RapidDR 2.5.1 Guide

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