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Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager

By : Abhilash G B
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Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager

By: Abhilash G B

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Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Abhilash G B
May, 2014 | 162 pages
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Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Installing and Configuring vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.5
Installing and Configuring vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.5
Introduction
So what exactly are RPO and RTO?
What is Site Recovery Manager (SRM)?
Laying the groundwork for an SRM environment
Summary
2
Creating Protection Groups and Recovery Plans
Creating Protection Groups and Recovery Plans
Datastore groups
Protection Groups
Creating a Protection Group
Recovery Plans
Creating a Recovery Plan
Summary
3
Testing and Performing a Failover and Failback
Testing and Performing a Failover and Failback
Testing a Recovery Plan
Performing a Planned Migration
Performing a disaster recovery (Failover)
Forced Recovery
Reprotecting a site
Failback to the protected site
Configuring VM recovery properties
Summary
4
Deploying vSphere Replication 5.5
Deploying vSphere Replication 5.5
Introduction
Downloading the vSphere Replication bundle
Deploying the vSphere Replication Appliance
Setting up 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 5.5
Configuring and Using vSphere Replication 5.5
Adding a remote site as a target
Configuring the replication of a VM to the local site
Configuring the replication of a VM to a remote site
How does replication work?
Using the replication seeds
Monitoring a replication
Reconfiguring a replication
Changing the target datastore
Pausing an ongoing replication
Synchronizing data immediately
Stopping a replication on a VM
Moving a replication to another VR Server
Recovering virtual machines
Configuring a Failback for virtual machines
Configuring SRM to leverage vSphere Replication
Summary
Index
Index

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

Although not mandatory, you might need to set a hostname and a target name for the vSphere Replication Appliance that you have deployed.

The VRA hostname

The hostname for the appliance can be set from the appliance's VAMI. The default hostname post deployment will be localhost.localdom. This can, however, be modified.

The following procedure will guide you through the steps required to modify the hostname:

  1. Connect to the VAMI of the appliance. Enter https://<IP address or FQDN>:5480 as the URL.

  2. Log in using the root user and the password that was supplied during the OVF deployment wizard.

  3. Navigate to the Address tab in the Network menu.

    Tip

    Prior to providing the hostname, it is important to create a new host (A) record at the DNS Server. Only then will you be able to connect to the appliance using its hostname.

  4. Provide a Hostname at the input box corresponding to it and click on Save Settings, as shown in the following screenshot...

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