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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 - Second Edition

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.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Deploying and configuring vRealize Orchestrator


vRealize Orchestrator is a vSphere task automation tool that is available with your vCenter Standard License. It has access to the entire vSphere API, making it a very powerful tool. The vRO plugin for SRM/vSphere Replication will enable some prebuilt workflows that can be readily used. vRO can also be used to create custom workflows for commonly performed tasks.

It is important to download a version of vRO that is compatible with the version of the solution whose tasks you intend to automate.

Here are a few charts from the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix online tool: https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/sim/interop_matrix.php

VRO's compatibility with all supported versions of SRM

VRO's compatibility with vSphere versions dating back to vCenter 5.5

VRO's compatibility with all supported versions of vSphere Replication

Downloading vRealize Orchestrator

At the time of writing, vRealize Orchestrator 7.0.1 was the latest version available...