This part of the lab is presented as a Hands-on Labs Interactive Simulation. This will allow you to experience steps which are too time-consuming or resource intensive to do live in the lab environment. In this simulation, you can use the software interface as if you are interacting with a live environment.

The orange boxes show where to click, and the left and right arrow keys can also be used to move through the simulation in either direction.

The whole purpose of a DR plan is to be able to quickly recover from an unplanned outage. vCloud Availability allows you to initiate a failover from the production side (via the vSphere Web Client) or from the vCloud Availability user interface running at the VMware Cloud Partner site. Sometimes you may want to migrate workloads whether or not your datacenter is under duress. vCloud Availability allows you to do that, too.

vCloud Availability assumes that if the production side is still up, the failover to the cloud partner is a planned migration. For this scenario, the production side is still up, so we want to initiate the failover from the vSphere Web Client.

1. Click on the vSphere Web Client tab in the browser.
2. Click the icon to Run a planned migration.
3. We want it to synchronize recent changes, so click Next.
4. We want it to shut down the guest OS, so click Next.
5. We want it to power on the recovered VM, so click Finish.
6. Click the Refresh icon to see the status change.
7. Click the Recovery tab to see that it is recovered.

Go to vCloud Director to see the recovered VM.

1. Click the vCloud Director tab in the browser.
2. Click the Refresh icon to see the CentOS VM is running.

Go to the vCloud Availability user interface to see the status.

1. Click the vCloud Availability tab in the browser.
2. Click the Workspaces tab.
3. Click the CentOS VM.

Note that VM is OK and the Status shows a green dot with an F in it, which means it's in a Failover state.

To return to the lab, click the link in the top right corner or close this browser tab.