VM-Recovery-Script

Description:

This script runs a Recovery Plan for VMs protected by Cloud

Requirements:

• Run PowerShell as administrator with command "Set-ExecutionPolcity unrestricted" on the host running the script
• A Cloud cluster or EDGE appliance, network access to it and credentials to login- A CSV with the following fields: VMName,Action,DisableNetwork,RemoveNetworkDevices,PowerOn,RunScriptsinLiveMount,PreFailoverScript,PostFailoverScriptDelay,PostFailoverScript,NextVMFailoverDelay,PreFailoverUserPrompt,PostFailoverUserPrompt
• Example CSV Line = FileServer1,LiveMount,TRUE,FALSE,TRUE,FALSE,,0,,30,Are you bloody sure?,Has the VM come online?- Valid options for Action are LiveMount, InstantRecover, recommended to use LiveMount first to validate recovery
• The options DisableNetwork,PowerOn,RunScriptsinLiveMount are only used LiveMount operations
• Valid options for DisableNetwork,RemoveNetworkDevices,PowerOn,RunScriptsinLiveMount are TRUE or FALSE
• Valid options for PostFailoverScriptDelay,NextVMFailoverDelay is 0 - any number of seconds
• If no script is specified for PreFailoverScript,PostFailoverScript then nothing is run
• If no user prompt is specified for PreFailoverUserPrompt,PostFailoverUserPrompt then the user isn't prompted, this choice can be made per VM
• This script always fails over to the latest snapshot available

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Configure the variables below for the Cloud Cluster

$CloudCluster = "192.168.0.200"
$RecoveryPlanCSV = "C:\Scripts\CloudRecoveryPlan\CloudRecoveryPlan.csv"
$LogDirectory = "C:\Scripts\CloudRecoveryPlan\"
# Prompting for username and password to authenicate, can set manually to remove human interaction
$Credentials = Get-Credential -Credential $null
$CloudUser = $Credentials.UserName
$Credentials.Password | ConvertFrom-SecureString
$CloudPassword = $Credentials.GetNetworkCredential().password