Creating a recovery server

You can follow the instructions below or watch the video tutorial.

Prerequisites

• A protection plan must be applied to the original machine that you want to protect. This plan must back up the entire machine, or only the disks, required for booting up and providing the necessary services, to a cloud storage.
• One of the connectivity types to the cloud site must be set.

To create a recovery server

1. On the All machines tab, select the machine that you want to protect.
2. Click Disaster recovery, and then click Create recovery server.
3. Select the number of virtual cores and the size of RAM.

   Be aware of the compute points next to every option. The number of compute points reflects the cost of running the recovery server per hour.

4. Specify the cloud network to which the server will be connected.
5. Specify the IP address that the server will have in the production network. By default, the IP address of the original machine is set.

   Note If you use a DHCP server, add this IP address to the server exclusion list in order to avoid IP address conflicts.

6. [Optional] Select the Test IP address check box, and then specify the IP address.

   This will give you the capability to test a failover in the isolated test network and to connect to the recovery server via RDP or SSH during a test failover. In the test failover mode, the VPN gateway will replace the test IP address with the production IP address by using the NAT protocol.

   If you leave the check box cleared, the console will be the only way to access the server during a test failover.

   Note If you use a DHCP server, add this IP address to the server exclusion list, in order to avoid IP address conflicts.

   You can select one of the proposed IP addresses or type in a different one.

7. [Optional] Select the Internet access check box.

   This will enable the recovery server to access the Internet during a real or test failover.

8. [Optional] Set the RPO threshold.

   The RPO threshold defines the maximum time interval allowed between the last suitable recovery point for a failover and the current time. The value can be set within 15 – 60 minutes, 1 – 24 hours, 1 – 14 days.

9. [Optional] Select the Use public IP address check box.

   Having a public IP address makes the recovery server available from the Internet during a failover or test failover. If you leave the check box cleared, the server will be available only in your production network.

   The public IP address will be shown after you complete the configuration. The following ports are open for inbound connections to public IP addresses:

   TCP: 80, 443, 8088, 8443

   UDP: 1194

   If you need other ports to be open, contact the support team.

10. [Optional] If the backups for the selected machine are encrypted, you can specify the password that will be automatically used when creating a virtual machine for the recovery server from the encrypted backup. Click Specify, and then define the credential name and password. By default, you will see the most recent backup in the list. To view all the backups, select Show all backups.
11. [Optional] Change the recovery server name.
12. [Optional] Type a description for the recovery server.
13. Click Create.

The recovery server appears in the Disaster Recovery > Servers > Recovery servers tab of the service console. You can also view its settings by selecting the original machine and clicking Disaster recovery.