Appendix E – Disaster Recovery Site Procedures
- Preliminary Actions
- HVAC / Power
- Verify HVAC and UPS are functioning properly
- Hardware
- Setup all hardware and install OS / software / write saved configs
- Connect all required network connections
- HVAC / Power
- Networking / Security
- Establish LAN connectivity
- Establish WAN connectivity
- Update DNS entries for external access
- SAN
- Configure network settings for VMware hosts, NFS, and iSCSI
- VMware
- Configure hosts
- Startup vCenter Server Appliance
- Verify functionality
- Core Services (AD / DC / DNS / DHCP / CAS / CA)
- Startup DNS servers
- Startup DHCP server
- Startup CAS servers
- Startup CA servers
- File Shares
- Startup FSCluster Nodes
- Run cluster validation
- Banner
- Startup Database Server
- Startup JobSub Server
- Startup Banner Administrative Servers
- Startup Banner Self-Service Servers
- Startup Imaging Servers
- Webservers
- Startup MySQL Server
- Startup Webservers
- Veeam
- Startup Veeam server
- Verify function
- Prepare to restore data and VMs as needed
- Other Applications / Services
- Startup VMs
- Verify services
- All Applications / Services
- Verify functionality
- Determine if any data need recovering from backup
- Recover and test