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

Abhilash G B

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781785281921
• Auflage: 2
• Thema: Computer Science
• Thema: System Administration

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.

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

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Table of Contents

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

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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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...