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VMware User Group Georgia, Tbilisi

vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4 Technical Overview

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Are you ready for Disaster ?

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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Simplifies and automates disaster recovery workflows:

Setup, testing, failoverTurns manual recovery runbooks into automated recovery plans

Provides central management of recovery plans from the VMware

vSphere Client

Works with VMware vSphere to make disaster recovery rapid, reliable, manageable, affordable

Site Recovery Manager leverages VMware vSphere to deliver advanced disaster recovery management and automation

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Storage

Servers

VMware vSphere

Virtual Machines

vCenter Server

Storage

Servers

VMware vSphere

vCenter Server

Protected Site Recovery Site

Virtual Machines

SRM SRM

Array-Based Replication

How SRM Works

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“Protected” Site “Recovery” Site

SRA SRA

vSphere Client

SRM Plug-In

vSphere Client

SRM Plug-In

VMFS SAN ArrayVMFS

Block Replication Software

VMFS SAN ArrayVMFS

Block Replication Software

Protection can be bi-directional

DB DB

SRM ServerSRM Server

DB DB

vCenter Server vCenter Server

ESXESX ESXESX ESX

SRM Deployment

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Storage Replication Adapters (SRAs)Discover arrays

Determine which LUNs are replicated by arrays

Assist in initiating tests and failovers

SRM Server

SRA

Vendor Management

Interface

Array Manager

Array Manager

Replication Manager

SRA

Vendor Management

Interface

ArrayArray Array

SRM Compatibility Matrix: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/srm_compat_matrix_4_0.pdf

Array Integration

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SRM ServerSRM Server

SRA SRA

VMFS SAN ArrayVMFS

Block Replication Software

VMFS SAN ArrayVMFS

Block Replication Software

vCenter Server vCenter Server

ESXESX ESXESX ESX

ArrayManager

ArrayManager

SRM Configuration

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Datastore Group 1

LUN 1

Protection Group 1

Protection Group 2

Protection Group 3

LUN 4

LUN 5

VMFS C

VMFS D

Datastore Group 3

Protection Group 1

Protection Group 2

Protection Group 3

Recovery Plan 1 (Entire Site)

Protection Group 1

Recovery Plan 2 (Subset)

Protected Site Recovery Site

Datastore

VMFS A

LUN 2

LUN 3

Datastore Group 2

VMFS BDatastore

Datastore

Datastore

About Protection Groups

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Custom Network Configuration

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Datastore Group 1

LUN 1

Protection Group 1

Protection Group 2

Protection Group 3

LUN 4

LUN 5

VMFS C

VMFS D

Datastore Group 3

Protection Group 1

Protection Group 2

Protection Group 3

Recovery Plan 1 (Entire Site)

Protection Group 1

Recovery Plan 2 (Subset)

Protected Site Recovery Site

Datastore

VMFS A

LUN 2

LUN 3

Datastore Group 2

VMFS BDatastore

Datastore

Datastore

Recovery Plan Building Blocks

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About Recovery Plans

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Edit recovery plan Export recovery plan

Add message step

Add command step Edit step

Move step up/down

Remove step

Customizing Recovery Plans

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Tests

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Failovers

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vSphere Client Integration

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vSphere Linked Mode

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SRM Server …

vCenter ServerSRM Server 2

Shared Recovery Site

SRM Server 1

vCenter Server

SAN Array

Protected Site 1

SRM Server 2

vCenter Server

SAN Array

Protected Site 2

SAN Array

SRM Server 1

Shared Recovery Site

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<SRM Installer.exe> /V"CUSTOM_SETUP=1"

To configure connections, SRM IDs and authentication method must be the same.

Installing the SRM Server for Shared Recovery

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Accessing Multiple Sites

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Shared Recovery Site – ROBO Protection

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Shared Recovery Site – DR Hosting Provider Used Scenario

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Questions

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Yuri Semenikhin

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E-mail: [email protected]