Quick start for NetApp Disaster Recovery

09/30/2026 Contributors

Learn how to configure NetApp Disaster Recovery, ensuring your system meets the requirements to successfully discover workloads and configure replication plans to prepare for failover.

Review prerequisites

The Super admin or Organization admin role is required to deploy a Console agent and assign permissions.

Deploy a Console agent
Review Disaster Recovery user roles and assign permissions to users who need them
Ensure your system meets these requirements
Ensure you meet the appropriate requirements for your workload type:
- VMware prerequisites
- Kubernetes prerequisites

Set up NetApp Disaster Recovery

These tasks require the Super admin or Disaster recovery admin role.

Set up the infrastructure for the service
Set up licensing

Configure disaster recovery plans

These tasks require the Disaster recovery admin role.

Add your sites to Disaster Recovery
Create resource groups
For Kubernetes workloads, add an AppVault
Create a replication plan
Replicate applications to another site
Manage resource transformations for Kubernetes workloads
Manage sites, resource groups, and replication plans
Monitor disaster recovery operations

Recover from disasters

These tasks require the Disaster Recovery admin or Disaster Recovery failover admin role.

Fail over applications to a remote site
Fail back applications to the original source site

Quick start for NetApp Disaster Recovery

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