Recovery group

You can use IBM Storage Defender to prioritize which data is important to you. To prioritize the data, you must assign storage resources to a recovery group, which is assigned to a governance profile and clean room profile.

recovery group

A recovery group is a collection of related storage resources that are used to represent an important application or service in your environment. It is important to consider that a resource group meets the following characteristics:

  1. There is a relationship between the resources that are assigned to the recovery group. For example, if a billing application your enterprise relies upon is based on 4 virtual machines (VMs), those 4 VMs should be assigned to the same recovery group.

  2. The resources assigned to a recovery group need to be protected together (data protection snapshots should be made with the same frequency and retained for the same duration).

    Tips:
    • If IBM Storage Protect is being used in your environment, then it is recommended that the VMs for a recovery group are assigned to the same policy domain and are backed up using the same schedule in the IBM Storage Protect server. With this type of setup, the backups for the VMs are managed with the same retention, version policies, and the backups are performed at the same time due to being associated with same schedule.
    • If IBM Storage Defender Data Protect is being used in your environment, then it is recommended that the VMs for a recovery group are assigned to the same policy and protection group in the IBM Storage Defender Data Protect Cluster. With this type of setup, the backups for the VMs are managed with the same retention, version policies, and the backups are performed at the same time from the association in the same protection group.

  3. If a recovery is needed for the resources that are assigned to this recovery group, they should all be recovered together by using snapshots from the same point in time.

You can use IBM Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service to create recovery groups. The recovery group is evaluated when it is created to determine whether there are corresponding secondary resources such as data protection backups or snapshots available.

For example, if a recovery group is assigned with VM1, VM2, VM3, and VM4. Then IBM Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service determines whether it can find backup snapshots for these VMs in the secondary sources in the same location (data center). If IBM Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service is able to correlate the primary and secondary VMs, it proceeds to test the recovery group based on the policy and clean room profile settings.