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

Abhilash G B

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

Abhilash G B

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Learn to bake in disaster recovery readiness for your vSphere Infrastructure using vCenter SRM 6.1, leveraging array-based replication and vSphere Replication 6.1About This Book• This is the first book on the market that provides an extensive disaster recovery solution using the latest vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager• Master the skills of protecting your virtual machines by replicating and recovering them in seconds• This practical, step-by-step guide will help you protect all your applications with Site Recovery Manager and ReplicationWho This Book Is ForIf you are a system administrator who is looking for a disaster recovery solution using the latest VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager, this book is perfect for you. You should have a basic knowledge of virtual machines and data center operations.What You Will Learn• Familiarize yourself with disaster recovery concepts and the architecture of vCenter Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication.• Deploy and Configure vCenter Site Recovery Manager to leverage array-based replication and vSphere Replication.• Use vSphere Replication as a standalone disaster recovery solution.• Enabling protection of Virtual Machines by creating Protection Groups. • Enable orchestration of the recovery of protected virtual machines by creating Recovery Plans.• Migrate virtual machine workload from one site to another using Recovery Plans• Testing and Performing a failover or failback of Virtual Machines using Recovery Plans• Enable vRealize Orchestrator Plugins for SRM and vSphere Replication.In DetailVMware 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.Style and approachThis is a practical, step-by-step guide on implementing a disaster recovery solution for your organization using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager.

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Publisher
Packt Publishing
Year
2016
ISBN
9781785281921
Edition
2
Topic
Computer Science
Subtopic
System Administration
Index
Computer Science

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

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Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
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Instant updates on new Packt books
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Installing and Configuring vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 6.1
Introduction
So what exactly are RPO and RTO?
What is Site Recovery Manager?
Site Recovery Manager(SRM) architecture
Array manager
Storage Replication Adapter (SRA)
Laying the groundwork for an SRM environment
Preparing storage for array-based replication
Host presentation (Zoning) at the protected and the recovery sites
Installing SRM on both the protected and recovery sites
Performing the SRM installation
Pairing SRM sites
Installing the Storage Replication Adapters
Downloading the SRAs
Installing the SRA
Adding array managers and enabling array pairs
Configuring placeholder datastores
Creating resource, folder, and network mappings
Resource mappings
Folder mappings
Network mappings
Virtual machine swap file location
Design choice 1: Separate datastore for the swap files
Design choice 2: Store the swap files in the VM's working directory
Summary
2. Creating Protection Groups and Recovery Plans
Understanding datastore groups
Understanding protection groups
Storage policy-based protection groups
Creating a protection group
What happens when you create a protection group?
Understanding recovery plans
Creating a recovery plan
Summary
3. Testing and Performing a Failover and Failback
Testing a recovery plan
Test workflow
Running the test
Testing a recovery plan – background
Performing the cleanup after a test
Performing a planned migration
Performing a disaster recovery (failover)
Performing a forced recovery
Enabling forced recovery for a site
Running a forced recovery
Reprotecting an SRM site
Performing a failback to an SRM protected site
IPv4 customization rules
Creating an IPv4 customization rule
How does SRM use IP customization rules?
Configuring VM recovery properties
IP customization
Recovery properties
Priority group
VM dependencies
Shutdown action
Startup action
Pre-power on and post-power on steps
Summary
4. 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
How does it work
Setting the VRA hostname and a VRM site name for the VRA
VRA hostname
VRM site name
Configuring a SQL database for VRMS
Deploying a vSphere Replication Server
Registering vSphere Replication Servers
Summary
5. 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
Creating a vSphere Replication protection group
Creating a vSphere Replication recovery plan
Testing a vSphere Replication recovery plan
Performing a recovery or a planned migration
Preforming a failback (re-protect and failover)
Summary
6. Using vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) to Automate SRM and vSphere Replication
Deploying and configuring vRealize Orchestrator
Downloading vRealize Orchestrator
Deploying vRealize Orchestrator
Using the vRealize Orchestrator client
Configuring vRealize Orchestrator
Configure vRO database
Configure authentication provider
Enabling vRealize Orchestration for a vCenter
Adding a vCenter Server instance to vRO
Registering vRO as a vCenter Server extension
Install vRealize Orchestrator plugins for SRM and vSphere Replication
Downloading the vRO plugins for SRM and vSphere Replication
Installing vRO plu...

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