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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

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

From the previous chapters, you learned how to use SRM to leverage vSphere Replication and/or array-based replication to protect virtual machine workloads to make them available in a Disaster Recovery situation. While SRM orchestrates most of the DR activities which otherwise would require a lot of manual work, it still needs an administrator to hop between many GUI elements to perform the tasks. In this chapter, you will learn how to deploy and configure vRealize Orchestrator for use with SRM and vSphere Replication. What we will not cover is creating custom workflows using vRealize Orchestrator as that is beyond the scope of this book. This chapter also covers a brief topic on Troubleshooting SRM and vSphere Replication.

Here is what we will be covering:

  • Deploying and configuring vRealize Orchestrator

  • Installing the vRO plugins for SRM and vSphere Replication

  • Troubleshooting SRM and vSphere Replication