How to re-deploy a config/process server on-prem that has crashed?

Question

This is for site recovery, if your on-prem config/process server crashes, what are the steps to get this back up as quickly as possible and have the protected servers replicating again? Do you build a new one and re-register it? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Configuration Server (CS) has a MySql installed in it, which holds a lot of information like the replicated items and the discovered items etc.

If the CS is lost, then there can be issues with replication and failback/protection of new items are not possible. So we need to have backups for the Configuration Server.
Please refer:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/vmware-azure-common-questions#should-i-back-up-the-configuration-server

If you are using a scale out Process Server (PS), and if that goes down, that could be handled by switching the traffic to a new PS.
Please Refer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/vmware-azure-manage-process-server#switch-an-entire-workload-to-another-process-server

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