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

By : Abhilash G B
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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.

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Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager Second Edition
Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager Second Edition
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Installing and Configuring vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 6.1
Installing and Configuring vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 6.1
Introduction
So what exactly are RPO and RTO?
What is Site Recovery Manager?
Laying the groundwork for an SRM environment
Preparing storage for array-based replication
Host presentation (Zoning) at the protected and the recovery sites
Pairing SRM sites
Installing the Storage Replication Adapters
Adding array managers and enabling array pairs
Configuring placeholder datastores
Creating resource, folder, and network mappings
Virtual machine swap file location
Summary
2
Creating Protection Groups and Recovery Plans
Creating Protection Groups and Recovery Plans
Understanding datastore groups
Understanding protection groups
Understanding recovery plans
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)
Performing a forced recovery
Reprotecting an SRM site
Performing a failback to an SRM protected site
IPv4 customization rules
Configuring VM recovery properties
Summary
4
Deploying vSphere Replication
Deploying vSphere Replication
Introduction
New features in vSphere Replication 6.1
Understanding the vSphere Replication architecture
Downloading the vSphere Replication bundle
Deploying the vSphere Replication Appliance
Setting 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 6.1
Configuring and Using vSphere Replication 6.1
Adding a remote site as a target
Configuring replication for a VM to the local/remote site
How does replication work?
Using replication seeds
Monitoring replication
Reconfiguring replication
Changing the target datastore
Pausing an Ongoing replication
Synchronize Data Immediately
Stopping replication on a VM
Moving replication to another VR Server
Recovering virtual machines
Configuring failback for VMs
Using SRM with vSphere Replication
Summary
6
Using vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) to Automate SRM and vSphere Replication
Using vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) to Automate SRM and vSphere Replication
Deploying and configuring vRealize Orchestrator
Install vRealize Orchestrator plugins for SRM and vSphere Replication
Troubleshooting SRM and vSphere Replication
Summary
Index
Index

Monitoring replication

Replication configured on the VMs can be monitored for its current status. Replications can be incoming or outgoing.

The following procedure will guide you through the steps required to monitor a replication:

  1. Connect to the vCenter Server and navigate to the inventory home.

  2. Click on vSphere Replication to bring up the vSphere Replication Home.

  3. Click on Monitor to go to the monitor tab with the vSphere Replication sub-tab selected:

  4. On the left-hand pane, you will find both Outgoing Replications and Incoming Replications selected. The Outgoing Replications section will show all the replications leaving the VR server at the current site. The Incoming Replications section will show all the replications arriving at the VR server at the current site:

Here, you might have noticed a Not Active status on one of the replications. This is because the source VM was not powered on. VR requires the source VM to be powered on for the replication to begin.

Selecting either Incoming Replications...

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