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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

Deploying a vSphere Replication Server


Unlike the vSphere Replication Appliances, you can deploy additional vSphere Replication Servers using an Add-On appliance available in the vSphere Replication deployment bundle that was downloaded.

Note

You can deploy up to 10 VR server appliances per vCenter server instance.

There are several use cases for deploying additional VR servers. One of the prime reasons is manual load distribution. Each VR server with a default memory configuration of 716 MB can handle up to 200 replications. If there more than 200 VMs are replicated, then you could choose to either increase the memory of the appliance or deploy additional appliances and load balance by distributing the replication traffic to different appliances.

The following procedure will guide you through the steps required to deploy additional VR servers:

  1. On the vSphere Web Client's Home page, click on vSphere Replication to bring up the vSphere Web Client's interface for vSphere Replication:

  2. The vSphere...