Quest VROOM 1.3 - User Guide

The VMware VM Protection Setup Wizard guides you through the procedure for identifying virtual machines that you want to protect. This wizard also enables you to customize the schedule for performing the protection automation.

To perform the automation of VM protection:

Ensure that the navigation panel is open.

To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow

on the left.

On the navigation panel, under Homes, click VMware Environment or Hyper-V Environment.

The VMware Environment or Hyper-V Environment dashboard opens.

Select a Virtual Machine that you want to protect from the Monitoring > Virtual Machine Quick View > Virtual Machines tree view.

The VM Automation (Data Protection) view appears in the middle of Virtual Machine Summary view.

Click Protect. The VMware VM Protection Setup Wizard opens.

In the Select Core Server step, select a Core Server from the drop-down list, and then click Next.

In the VMs to Protect step, select VMs from the left vCenter table, click >> to move selected VMs to the right table, and then click Next.

In the Connection step, specify the port number as needed, and then click Next.

In the Select Repository step, select a repository from the Core Repositories drop-down list, and then click Next.

In the Schedule step, select either of the following schedule options, and then click Next:

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Default protection: The automation will be performed hourly for all volumes.

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Periods: The automation will be performed on specified weekdays or weekends.

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Daily protection time: The automation will be performed on a daily basis.

In the Summary step, review all configurations and click Finish.

The selected VM will be added into VROOM Rapid Recovery Protected VMs list and Rapid Recovery Core Server list after the VM protection automation is complete. The first time when a VM protection is added, its snapshot with the customized schedule will be transferred to the repository on the Rapid Recovery Core. You might need to wait for a while to see the VM’s status update and to collect data back to Foglight from Rapid Recovery server.

Automation of VM Replication

The replicate is the process of copying recovery points from one Rapid Recovery Core and transmitting them to another Rapid Recovery Core for disaster recovery purposes. The process requires a paired source-target relationship between two or more cores. The VM Replication Wizard guides you through the procedure for identifying virtual machines that you want to replicate.

To perform the automation of VM replication:

Ensure that the navigation panel is open.

To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow

on the left.

On the navigation panel, under Homes, click VMware Environment or Hyper-V Environment.

The VMware Environment or Hyper-V Environment dashboard opens.

Select a Virtual Machine that you want to protect from the Monitoring > Virtual Machine Quick View > Virtual Machines tree view.

The VM Automation (Data Protection) view appears in the middle of Virtual Machine Summary view.

Click Replicate. The VM Replication Wizard opens.

In the Master Core step, click Next.

In the Target Core step, select the target Core Server, and then click Next.


	NOTE: If there is no available target Core, go to Rapid Recovery Console > Replication and add a target Core in the selected Master Core manually.

In the Target Repository step, select a repository, and then click Next.

In the Protected Machines step, select other virtual machines that you want to replicated as needed, and then click Finish.

The selected VMs will be added into target Core after the VM replication automation is complete. The replication pane contains summary information about the replicated machine, including the replication name, the state of replication, progress, and available space. You might need to wait for a while to see the VM’s status update and to collect data back to Foglight from Rapid Recovery server.

Automation of VM Standby

The VM Virtual Standby Wizard guides you through the procedure for performing a virtual standby of continual export of recovery point data from a protected machine to a virtual machine in any supported VM format.

To perform the automation of VM standby:

Ensure that the navigation panel is open.

To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow

on the left.

On the navigation panel, under Homes, click VMware Environment or Hyper-V Environment.

The VMware Environment or Hyper-V Environment dashboard opens.

Select a Virtual Machine that you want to protect from the Monitoring > Virtual Machine Quick View > Virtual Machines tree view.

The VM Automation (Data Protection) view appears in the middle of Virtual Machine Summary view.

Click Virtual Standby. The VM Virtual Standby Wizard opens.

In the Virtual Standby Core Server step, verify the Core Server information, and then click Next.


	NOTE: Currently only the virtual standby deployment in VMware is supported. If you need to deploy a virtual standby on Hyper-V/VirtualBox/Azure, go to the Rapid Recovery console.