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Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager. Use VMware vCenter SRM as a disaster recovery solution leveraging both array-based replication and vSphere Replication

Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager. Use VMware vCenter SRM as a disaster recovery solution leveraging both array-based replication and vSphere Replication

Abhilash G B

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  • 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
  • Title: Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager. Use VMware vCenter SRM as a disaster recovery solution leveraging both array-based replication and vSphere Replication
  • Author: Abhilash G B
  • Original title: Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager. Use VMware vCenter SRM as a disaster recovery solution leveraging both array-based replication and vSphere Replication.
  • ISBN: 9781782176459, 9781782176459
  • Date of issue: 2014-05-26
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3bn4
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing