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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

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Deploying a vSphere Replication Server


Unlike with 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. You can deploy up to 10 VR Servers appliances per vCenter Server instance. There are several use cases to deploy additional VR Servers. One of the prime reasons is the manual load distribution. Each VR Server with the default memory configuration of 512 MB can handle up to 100 replications. If there are more than 100 VMs being replicated, then you could either choose to 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. From the vSphere Web Client's home page, click on vSphere Replication to bring up the vSphere Web Client's interface for vSphere Replication...