Veritas Resiliency Platform is deployed as a virtual appliance. A virtual appliance is a virtual machine image consisting of a pre-configured operating system environment with a software application installed on it. This virtual machine image can be deployed on a hypervisor.

There are two virtual appliances available for Resiliency Platform: one is used to deploy the Resiliency Manager and the Infrastructure Management Server (IMS) and the other is used to deploy the Replication Gateway. You need to deploy the Replication Gateway only if you choose to use Resiliency Platform Data Mover for replicating your data. If you choose to use any third-party array-based or hypervisor-based replication, you only need to deploy the Resiliency Manager and IMS in your environment.

You typically deploy and configure at least one Resiliency Manager and one Infrastructure Management Server (IMS) in the production data center and at least one Resiliency Manager and one Infrastructure Management Server (IMS) in the recovery data center.

In case you plan to use Resiliency Platform Data Mover, you need to deploy at least two Replication Gateway virtual appliances. One Replication Gateway is deployed in the production data center and the other Replication Gateway is deployed in the recovery data center.

The Replication Gateway is typically not deployed on the same ESX server as the virtual machines that are to be replicated. However, the Replication Gateway on the production data center must have access to the ESX servers for the production virtual machines to be replicated. The Replication Gateway on the recovery data center must have access to the ESX servers where the recovery virtual machines will be provisioned.

You can deploy the Resiliency Platform virtual appliances using any one of the following:

• Hyper-V Manager

• VMware vSphere Client

Once the Resiliency Platform virtual appliances are deployed, you are required to configure the Resiliency Platform component through the product bootstrap.