Nutanix: failover recovery with Async DR
There two scenarios for failover plan and migrating to DR:
First, when main site is online and have time to shutdown the servers properly.
Second is when main site offline for some reason and you can’t access to servers.
1: To DR and back online in 60 seconds
I have two sites: main and DR.
On main site connect to servers and shut them down (his step is not necessary, but recommended). When all machines are off, connect to PRISM and go to Data Protection – Async DR
Mark one server that you want to migrate to DR site and click on “Migrate”. If server was online and didn’t shut down before, Nutanix will automatically power him off
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