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We are looking at the Commvault dashboard. The first thing we need to do is to configure your control plane backups to go to cloud.commvault.com. To do that, we must click Manage on the left hand side. Click System. Click Maintenance on the right hand side. Click DR Backup Daily. Click More. Click Edit. You are now looking at the settings for your daily control plane backup. The setting that we are specifically looking for is Upload Backup Metadata to Metallic Cloud. You need to ensure that this setting is slid to the right. Once that is done, click Save. Now, all new installations, this is the default setting. However, we need to double check just to make sure. From here, we need to set up AirGet Protect. On the left, we click Storage. Click AirGet Protect. Now, if you want to add a new AirGet Protect storage location, you click Add on the upper right. Now, fill out the information for your AirGet Protect storage. This will be specific to the license you purchased. As you can see here, ours is licensed for cool. Cleanroom Recovery will work with either cool or hot AirGet Protect storage. It is really up to you what you purchase. Finally, on Location, select the location that is most applicable to your environment. For us, we select U.S. Central. After you fill this out, click Save. Now, we will move on to modifying a plan. To do that, we will click Manage on the left and then click Plans. We do this to ensure we have a plan that is storing backup copies in AirGet Protect. To modify an existing plan, you simply click the plan name. Now, click Backup Destinations in the top. Then, on the right-hand side, click Add. Click Copy. In this screen, you fill in the settings that are applicable to the AirGet Protect storage that you just configured in the previous step. Then, click Save. Now, that's it! You have your Commvault software set and ready to use Cleanroom Recovery. The next step is we will initiate a Cleanroom Recovery. We have now logged in to cloud.commvault.com. That is the first step to initiate a Cleanroom Recovery. You simply log in with the account you've already created. The first thing we need to do once we log in is click anywhere in the Security Posture Score tile. From here, all of the Cleanroom cells in your environment will be displayed, if you have multiple. You can simply scroll and find it, or click here to search for it. We will search for Ours since we have multiple. Now, on the right-hand side, you'll notice a column labeled Recovery Validation. You'll notice Ours says 100. That's because we have tested the Recovery Validation before. If you are new, yours will say Start Recovery. Either way, click on the percentage or Start Recovery to get to the Recovery Validation details. We are now looking at all the details for your Recovery Validation. In the bottom, you'll see a list of all of the backups sent to cloud.commvault.com. These are known as backup sets. You'll also see various details about your licensing and tests running, if you have any. For the sake of this demonstration, we are going to go straight to initiating a recovery. To do that, in the bottom table where the backup sets are listed, in the Actions column, you want to click an ellipsis. You can choose any of the backup sets listed on this page. For this demonstration, we'll simply choose the latest one. Click on Start Recovery. This will open up the details about recoveries that you've used and the duration of the recovery you're about to initiate. So simply click Submit. At this point, you'll get an email that says the recovery has been initiated. You can also click here on Recovery Requests. All the requests that you have initiated will show up in the Recovery Requests table. As you can see here, the latest one we have says Creating VM. If you want, you can stay on this page and wait until it says CS Staged. Or you can wait until you get an email that says the recovery is finished. Either is okay. So now we will wait for the control plane to be recovered. Now the CS has been staged. You can see that by the status has changed to CS Staged for the backup set we recovered. Now you have a fully staged control plane. To access that control plane, you can click under the Actions column on the ellipsis next to your backup set and see access details. If for some reason you want to extend how long your current recovery is up, you can click on the Extend Reservation. But for the sake of this demonstration, we're just going to go straight to Access Details. Now you can see all the information you need to recover your console. You may notice that the user is Recovery Manager. That is because every control plane that is recovered is in a read-only state with a limited access user. We do this so security is increased and the initial dependency on Active Directory or LDAP is removed. Now that's it. The control plane is fully recovered. The next stage will be to go on and configure the control plane that has been recovered into the Metallic Cloud. We are now logged in to the recovered control plane that we performed in the previous step. As you can see, the dashboard looks slightly different, and that is because we are logged in as the limited rights user that we also illustrated in the previous step. So the first thing we must do to initiate a recovery test is to add the target to perform a recovery into. To do this, first we must click on Protect, Virtualization, Add Hypervisor on the right-hand side. Then click Microsoft Azure, Next. Now we are going to add the information about our Microsoft Azure subscription. The first thing we do is give it a logical name, and then add in your subscription information as well as credentials to access your subscription. If you don't have credentials already saved, you can create them now. And then select Access Node. For the sake of the demo, I'm going to select the recovered control plane and click Next. Since we don't have any VMs to actually protect, I'm going to click Cancel on this one. And now we can go in and set up the details for the clean room. The first thing we do is after we've clicked Clean Room and then Targets on the left-hand side, we need to add a target. So we need to click Add in the upper right. Give it a logical name. The destination, you can see it already picked the hypervisor that we created. Access Node, I'm going to leave as the recovered control plane. And then you can set this to be whatever you want. I'm going to leave it to default to add a suffix of CRR to my recovered machines. Now, after clicking Next, we want to set up the details for the destination. The first thing is the region. This needs to be the same region as your AirGap Protect storage. So for us, I'm going to search for Central US. Then it'll finish loading the rest of the details. Leave everything else automatic except for Virtual Network. I'm going to select the network that I created specific. I'm also going to tell it to create a public IP address. Submit. Now, we have to create our recovery groups. Click on Recovery Groups on the left. On the upper right, give it a logical name. Select the target which we'll select the target we just created. And then we'll leave the default recovery point as automatic. Click Save. And now we've created our recovery group. We can add entities to this. Every entity added to this will receive the same recovery settings, but that can be customized. So to add entities, you click Add on the right and Virtual Machines. Now this will show you a list of virtual machines you have. I'm going to select our virtual machines from the group we have pre-set up. I'm going to select DNS1 and a Red Hat client. And then click Add. And now we've created the group. As you can see, my Red Hat client gives me a different status than my Windows client. This is because we do some checking before we even initiate the recovery. This, when I hover over it, you can see the name does not match Azure standards. So I can come into Actions, Override Recovery Options, and modify the name to fix that error. That's it. I have now created groups and targets to perform my recovery. The next step is to simply perform my recovery. To do that from the recovery group, we can click Recover All in the upper right. This will recover all of the machines in the recovery group. I'll click Submit. To check, we can click on Jobs and see that the recovery is starting. We can also monitor the status of the machines in the recovery group from the Recovery Groups page. So click on Cleanroom on the left, Recovery Groups, click on your recovery group, and now you can see the status of the machines in that group. Both of these say In Progress because they are currently being recovered. Now, as you can see, everything has been recovered by this recovery status being green and saying Recovered. To show this, I'm going to quickly switch over to the Azure environment. As you can see, there was nothing in there before. I'm going to refresh it. And now you can see that we have both the Red Hat client as well as the Windows client recovered and running. Now go back. That's it. We've now performed a Cleanroom recovery.
