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

By : Abhilash G B
Book Image

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

Performing a planned migration


VMware SRM can be used to migrate your workload from one site to another. A planned migration is done when the protected site is available and running the virtual machine workload.

There are many use cases, of which the following two are prominent:

  • When migrating your infrastructure to new hardware

  • When migrating your virtual machine storage from one array to another

Note

A planned migration will replicate the most recent changes with the help of storage replication. This is not optional.

The following procedure will guide you through the steps required in performing a planned migration:

  1. Navigate to the vCenter Server's inventory home and click on Site Recovery to bring up Site Recovery Home.

  2. At Site Recovery Home, use the left pane to navigate to Recovery Plans under Inventories.

  3. Select the recovery plan, navigate to its Monitor | Recovery Steps tab, and click on the icon to bring up the Recovery wizard:
  4. The first screen will seek a Recovery Confirmation. The Recovery...