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Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager - Second Edition

By : Abhilash G B

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Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager

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By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

VMware vCenter Site Recovery manage is an orchestration tool used to automate disaster recovery in a manner that no other solution does. It is programmed to leverage array-based replication and VMware's proprietary vSphere Replication engine. The book begins by talking about the architecture of SRM and guides you through the procedures involved in installing and configuring SRM to leverage array-based replication. You will then learn how to protect your virtual machines by creating Protection Groups and validate their recoverability by testing recovery plans and even performing failover and failback. Moving on, you will learn how to install and configure vSphere Replication as a standalone disaster recovery solution. It also guides you through the procedures involved in configuring SRM to leverage vSphere replication. Finally, you will learn how to deploy and configure vRealize Orchestrator and its plugin for SRM and vSphere Replication.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Installing and Configuring vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 6.1

1. Installing and Configuring vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 6.1

Introduction

So what exactly are RPO and RTO?

What is Site Recovery Manager?

Laying the groundwork for an SRM environment

Preparing storage for array-based replication

Host presentation (Zoning) at the protected and the recovery sites

Pairing SRM sites

Installing the Storage Replication Adapters

Adding array managers and enabling array pairs

Configuring placeholder datastores

Creating resource, folder, and network mappings

Virtual machine swap file location

Summary

2. Creating Protection Groups and Recovery Plans

2. Creating Protection Groups and Recovery Plans

Understanding datastore groups

Understanding protection groups

Understanding recovery plans

Summary

3. Testing and Performing a Failover and Failback

3. Testing and Performing a Failover and Failback

Testing a recovery plan

Performing a planned migration

Performing a disaster recovery (failover)

Performing a forced recovery

Reprotecting an SRM site

Performing a failback to an SRM protected site

IPv4 customization rules

Configuring VM recovery properties

Summary

4. Deploying vSphere Replication

4. Deploying vSphere Replication

Introduction

New features in vSphere Replication 6.1

Understanding the vSphere Replication architecture

Downloading the vSphere Replication bundle

Deploying the vSphere Replication Appliance

Setting the VRA hostname and a VRM site name for the VRA

Configuring a SQL database for VRMS

Deploying a vSphere Replication Server

Registering vSphere Replication Servers

Summary

5. Configuring and Using vSphere Replication 6.1

5. Configuring and Using vSphere Replication 6.1

Adding a remote site as a target

Configuring replication for a VM to the local/remote site

How does replication work?

Using replication seeds

Monitoring replication

Reconfiguring replication

Changing the target datastore

Pausing an Ongoing replication

Synchronize Data Immediately

Stopping replication on a VM

Moving replication to another VR Server

Recovering virtual machines

Configuring failback for VMs

Using SRM with vSphere Replication

Summary

6. Using vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) to Automate SRM and vSphere Replication

6. Using vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) to Automate SRM and vSphere Replication

Deploying and configuring vRealize Orchestrator

Install vRealize Orchestrator plugins for SRM and vSphere Replication

Troubleshooting SRM and vSphere Replication

Summary

Index

Index

Recovering virtual machines

We have described how to configure replication for the virtual machines. The story will remain half-told, however, if we do not cover how to recover virtual machines using their replicas. You can perform a recovery only at the site target site. In other words, you will be presented with an option to initiate a recovery only at the site which has seen the incoming replication.

The following procedure will guide you through the steps required to perform a recovery:

Connect to the vCenter Server managing the remote site and navigate to the inventory home.
Note
If there is only one vCenter Server managing both the protected and recovery sites, then vSphere Replication's monitor tab will show both the outgoing and incoming replication for the virtual machine.
Click on vSphere Replication to bring up the vSphere Replication home.
Click on Monitor to go to the monitor tab with the vSphere Replication sub-tab selected.
Select Incoming Replications on the left-hand pane and select...

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