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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.
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

Recovering virtual machines


We have described how to configure replication for the virtual machines. The story will remain half-told, however, if we do not cover how to recover virtual machines using their replicas. You can perform a recovery only at the site target site. In other words, you will be presented with an option to initiate a recovery only at the site which has seen the incoming replication.

The following procedure will guide you through the steps required to perform a recovery:

  1. Connect to the vCenter Server managing the remote site and navigate to the inventory home.

    Note

    If there is only one vCenter Server managing both the protected and recovery sites, then vSphere Replication's monitor tab will show both the outgoing and incoming replication for the virtual machine.

  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. Select Incoming Replications on the left-hand pane and select...