Product Documentation

About evacuation plan

An evacuation plan lets you evacuate all the assets from the production data center to the recovery data center with a single click operation.

Using the evacuation plan template you can define the sequence in which the virtual business services (VBS) should be migrated from the production data center to the recovery data center. Resiliency groups that do not belong to any VBSs, are appended at the end of the evacuation plan workflow after the VBS. If there are large number of VBSs then up to 5 VBSs within a priority group are migrated in parallel to the recovery data center. Similarly, if there are large number of resiliency groups, up to 10 resiliency groups are migrated in parallel.

You can create an evacuation plan using only resiliency groups also. Having a VBS is not compulsory.

An evacuation plan has Priorities. You can add the VBSs to different priority levels. Ordering of resiliency groups is done by the Resiliency Platform.

If an asset within a VBS or a resiliency group fails to recover, the evacuation plan skips the asset and continues the process for the remaining assets. To do this you need to select the Continue on failures check box while creating the evacuation plan.

If the check box is not selected the evacuation plan stops, enabling you to fix the problem, and proceed ahead. If you choose to restart the workflow then the already executed steps are re-executed with the same results.

Only users with Manage Evacuation Plans permission can create and run the evacuation plans.

For a VBS or a resiliency group to successfully evacuate to the target data center, it should meet the following criteria:

When you generate a plan, an appropriate warning is shown listing the assets that are excluded from the plan.

On completing the evacuation plan, you can perform the following operations:

An alert is raised and you need to perform the Regenerate evacuation plan operation in the following scenarios:

No action is required in the following scenarios:

When you run the Evacuate, Rehearse evacuation, Cleanup evacuation rehearsal, or the Regenerate evacuation plan operation, you can view the workflow details in the Activities view.

See Performing evacuation.