Patent ID: 9183097
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for recovering a production environment which includes one or more physical and/or virtual machine infrastructure elements that together comprise one or more data centers, and where a recovery environment provides a managed recovery service for the infrastructure elements, the method carried out in the recovery environment, comprising: receiving a recovery automation data file containing configuration information for the physical infrastructure elements; receiving a virtual recovery automation file containing configuration information for the virtual infrastructure elements and a script file containing instructions to be executed in the recovery environment wherein configuration information in the virtual recovery automation file includes configuration information for hosts, networks, datastores, and virtual machines in the data centers; instantiating a recovery system for hosting one or more available physical machines of the same type as in the production environment, the physical machines allocated from a group of machines such that a number of available physical machines may vary over time; configuring physical machines in the recovery environment according to the virtual recovery automation file; instantiating virtual machines in the recovery environment according to the virtual recovery automation file; and executing the script file within the recovery system to configure the recovery environment.