VMware VCM 5.3 - RECOVERY GUIDE User manual

vCenter Configuration Manager Backup and Disaster

Recovery Guide

VCM 5.3

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Contents

About This Book 5

Implementing a Disaster Recovery Plan 7

Performing Backup Procedures 9

Backing Up the Database 9

Perform a Full Backup 10

Perform a Differential Backup 17

Perform a File System Backup 23

Back up HTTP Certificates 23

Performing Recovery Procedures 29

Import HTTP Certificates 30

Restoring the Databases 35

Restore the System Database 35

Restore the Report Server Database 37

Restore the VCM Databases 39

Installing VCM 41

Restoring File System Components 43

Script for Exported Reports 43

Index 45

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About This Book

About This Book This manual, VCM Backup and Disaster Recovery Guide, describes the steps required to ensure the

preparation and implementation of a successful disaster recovery plan for VMware vCenter Configuration

Manager (VCM). This document contains the following information:

nBackup procedures

nRecovery procedures

nDatabase restoration procedures

Read this document and complete the associated procedures to prepare for a successful disaster recovery

plan. The VCM Backup and Disaster Recovery Guide covers VCM version 5.3.

Intended Audience

The information presented in this manual is written for system administrators who are experienced

Windows or UNIX/Linux/Mac OSX system administrators and who are familiar with managing network

users and resources, and performing system maintenance.

To use the information in this guide effectively, you must have a basic understanding of how to configure

network resources, install software, and administer operating systems. You also need to fully understand

your network’s topology and resource naming conventions.

Document Feedback

VMware welcomes your suggestions for improving our documentation. If you have comments, send

your feedback to docfeedback@vmware.com.

VMware VCM Documentation

The vCenter Configuration Manager (VCM) documentation consists of the VCM Hardware and Software

Requirements Guide,VCM Hardware and Software Requirements Guide,VCM Foundation Checker User's Guide,

VCM online Help, and other associated documentation.

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Technical Support and Education Resources

The following technical support resources are available to you. To access the current version of this book

and other books, go to http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.

Online and Telephone

Support

To use online support to submit technical support requests, view your product

and contract information, and register your products, go to

http://www.vmware.com/support.

Customers with appropriate support contracts should use telephone support for

priority 1 issues. Go to http://www.vmware.com/support/phone_support.html.

Support Offerings To find out how VMware support offerings can help meet your business needs,

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Services

VMware Education Services courses offer extensive hands-on labs, case study

examples, and course materials designed to be used as on-the-job reference tools.

Courses are available onsite, in the classroom, and live online. For onsite pilot

programs and implementation best practices, VMware Consulting Services

provides offerings to help you assess, plan, build, and manage your virtual

environment. To access information about education classes, certification

programs, and consulting services, go to http://www.vmware.com/services.

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Implementing a Disaster Recovery Plan 1

Implementing a Disaster Recovery Plan To provide a disaster recovery plan for vCenter Configuration Manager (VCM), VMware recommends

the following procedures be implemented for an “Active Production / Standby Spare” recovery model.

This guide provides a baseline for configuring the proper backup schedules and information on how to

recover a system using these prepared backups. The frequencies and retention values provided may be

adjusted to meet specific service-level agreements and retention requirements.

When implementing a Disaster Recovery Plan, ensure the following:

nHistorical data should be retained, and will be as current as the last scheduled database backup.

nDuplicate hardware of the production VCM Collector will be available in an alternate location for

recovery tasks.

nThe recovery Collector will be prepared with all software prerequisites for a VCM installation matching

the product versions of the production Collector.

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Performing Backup Procedures 2

Performing Backup Procedures The following steps should be taken to ensure that all required databases have been properly backed up in

compliance with your corporate standards. The maintenance plan created for this process should be used

in addition to other database integrity and re-indexing maintenance plans. Although both backup plans, as

well as other maintenance tasks, may be combined into a single SQL Maintenance Plan, creating separate

plans can assist in future troubleshooting and Maintenance Plan organization.

IMPORTANT Although the procedures in this document apply to SQLServer, you should apply the

concepts about backing up your data to any third-party software you are using.

Backing Up the Database

The example provided in this guide assumes a weekly full backup and a daily differential backup of each

database. Transaction log (point-in-time) backups are not available, as the VCM databases are configured

in Simple Recovery mode and should not be modified.

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Perform a Full Backup

Full backups will remain available on-disk for four weeks and differential backups will remain available for

seven days. When adjusting the frequency or retention of backup schedules, ensure that the required

amount of disk space is available for the maximum number of backup sets.

Procedure

1. Start Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.

2. Connect to the VCM Database Server using an account with SQL Administrative privileges.

3. In Object Explorer, navigate to the Maintenance Plans node.

4. Right-click Maintenance Plans, and then select Maintenance Plan Wizard.

5. Click Next, and then enter a name and description for the maintenance plan.

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