Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Man电子书

Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Table of Contents

Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Installing and Configuring vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.5

Introduction

So what exactly are RPO and RTO?

What is Site Recovery Manager (SRM)?

Architecture

Array manager

Storage Replication Adapter (SRA)

Laying the groundwork for an SRM environment

Preparing storage for an array-based replication

Host presentation (zoning) at the protected and recovery sites

Installing SRM on the protected and recovery sites

Performing the SRM installation

Installing the SRM plugin for vSphere Client

Pairing sites

Installing Storage Replication Adapters

Downloading SRA

Installing SRA

Adding an array manager

Enabling an array pair

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 virtual machines' working directory

Summary

2. Creating Protection Groups and Recovery Plans

Datastore groups

Protection Groups

Creating a Protection Group

So, what exactly happens when you create a Protection Group?

Recovery Plans

Creating a Recovery Plan

Summary

3. Testing and Performing a Failover and Failback

Testing a Recovery Plan

How does a test work?

Performing the cleanup after a test

Performing a Planned Migration

Performing a disaster recovery (Failover)

Forced Recovery

Enabling Forced Recovery for a site

Running Forced Recovery

Reprotecting a site

Failback to the protected site

Configuring VM recovery properties

IP settings

Priority Group

VM Dependencies

The Shutdown Action

The Startup Action

The Pre-power On Steps and Post Power On Steps properties

Summary

4. Deploying vSphere Replication 5.5

Introduction

New features of vSphere Replication 5.5

Multiple points-in-time replication snapshots (historical retention)

Multiple vSphere Replication Server appliances per vCenter

Storage vMotion of protected VMs

Storage profiles and vSAN compatibility

Performance improvement

Understanding the vSphere Replication architecture

Downloading the vSphere Replication bundle

Deploying the vSphere Replication Appliance

How does it work?

Setting up the VRA hostname and a VRM site name for the VRA

The VRA hostname

The 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 5.5

Adding a remote site as a target

Configuring the replication of a VM to the local site

Configuring the replication of a VM to a remote site

How does replication work?

Using the replication seeds

Monitoring a replication

Reconfiguring a replication

Changing the target datastore

Pausing an ongoing replication

Synchronizing data immediately

Stopping a replication on a VM

Moving a replication to another VR Server

Recovering virtual machines

Recover with recent changes

Recover with the latest available data

Configuring a Failback for virtual machines

Configuring SRM to leverage 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

Performing a Failback (reprotect and Failover)

Summary

Index