Configuring the RHA NAT Utility for Various Network Setups › Example 1: Masters are behind a Closed Firewall › Perform BMR from a Rewind Point

Perform BMR from a Rewind Point

The bare metal recovery lets you recover data and applications from a bookmark rewind point to a bare metal machine. Start the bare metal machine and configure the NAT utility.

Follow these steps:

1. Stop the scenario from the RHA manager.
2. Start Master 2 (bare metal machine) using the RHA BMR DVD or ISO image.
3. Verify the network adapter settings. If the settings are not correct, configure them manually.
4. Open the command prompt and navigate to the rha folder. Run the following command to open the RHA NAT utility.

   natutil 
   

5. Run the following command to add Firewall 2 external IP address and port details.

   nat.addhost 155.35.79.139 24000
   

   nat.addhost 155.35.79.139 25000
   

   Port 24000 for Control Service and 25000 for the appliance.

6. Run the following command to apply the settings and establish a connection between Master 2 and the Control Service.

   nat.apply
   

7. Next, open the RHA Manager and click New on the standard toolbar to create the scenario.
8. Click Restore Data to open the Data Restore Wizard.
9. Select Recovery Type (Bare Metal Recovery) and the recovery point.
10. Enter the following IP address and port details on the Recovery Destination page.

    Destination IP: 192.168.0.113, 25000

11. Click Verify to verify the destination host.
12. Enter details of volume, resource pool, storage, scenario properties, and host properties similar to that of a full system scenario.
13. Click Run to start the recovery scenario.