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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager What's New and Technical Overview

Bryan Evans, VMware, Inc. Ken Werneburg, VMware, Inc.

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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Whats New and Technical Overview
Bryan Evans Product Manager, VMware
Ken Werneburg Senior Technical Marketing Manager, VMware INF-BCO2147

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Agenda

Simple and Reliable DR with vSphere and SRM

SRM supports a broad range of replication options Key Use Case: Automated Failback Key Use Case: Planned Migration SRM is Mature and Reliable

Whats New in SRM 5.1

vSphere Replication is now part of vSphere Application Consistency for vSphere Replication All Paths Down Improvements

Forced Failover
Automated Failback for All Replication Options Support for vSphere Essentials+

Simple and Reliable DR with vSphere and SRM

Challenges of Traditional Disaster Recovery

Expensive
Software

Complex Recovery Plans

Apps

Unreliable Failovers

Hosts

? ?
Storage

?
Hosts

Storage

Facilities

? Network ?

>$10K per app

Failure to meet business requirements Long RTOs days to weeks Too much time and resources consumed
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vSphere Provides The Best Foundation For Disaster Recovery

Cost-Efficient Infrastructure

Consolidation

vSphere

Reduced hardware requirements at recovery site Use recovery hardware to run low-priority apps

Flexible Infrastructure

Hardware Independence

vSphere

vSphere

Eliminate need for identical hardware across sites

Enable waterfalling of equipment to recovery site

Simple Application Protection

Encapsulation

Entire system including application, OS, and data is stored as virtual machine files Entire system can be protected with data protection tools

Site Recovery Manager Complements vSphere for DR

Traditional DR
Streamline planned migrations and automated failback Automated DR failover and nondisruptive testing Simple management of recovery and migration plans

VMware

SRM

vSphere Replication
Encapsulation for simple recovery of entire systems Hardware independence at failover site Consolidation to reduce costs

vSphere

SRM Simplifies Setup and Management of Recovery Plans

From Complex Runbooks to Simple Recovery Plans

Weeks or months to set up Error-prone

Simple recovery plan set up in minutes Fewer steps means far less room for errors

Quickly falls out of sync with apps and infrastructure changes

Simple to keep in sync with changes

SRM Provides Broad Choice of Replication Options

Site A (Primary) Site B (Recovery) vCenter Server Site Recovery Manager Site Recovery Manager

vCenter Server

vSphere

vSphere

vSphere Replication

Storage-based replication
vSphere Replication Simple, cost-efficient replication for Tier 2 applications and smaller sites Storage-based Replication High-performance replication for business-critical applications in larger sites
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Automated Failback To Streamline Bi-Directional Migrations

Automated Failback Overview
Re-protect VMs from Site B to Site A Reverse replication Apply reverse resource mapping

Reverse original recovery plan

Site A Site B

Automate failover from Site B to Site A Reverse original recovery plan Restrictions Does not apply if Site A has undergone major changes / been rebuilt Not available with vSphere Replication

vSphere

vSphere

Reverse Replication

Benefits
Simplify failback process Automate replication management Eliminate need to set up new recovery plan Streamline frequent bi-directional migarations

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Planned Migrations for App Consistency & No Data Loss

Planned Migration
Shut down production VMs
Site A

Overview
Two workflows can be applied to recovery plans: DR failover Planned migration Planned migration ensures application consistency and no data-loss during migration Graceful shutdown of production VMs in application consistent state Data sync to complete replication of VMs Recover fully replicated VMs

Recover appconsistent VMs

Site B

vSphere

vSphere

Replication

Benefits
Better support for planned migrations

2 Sync data, stop replication and present LUNs to vSphere

No loss of data during migration process Recover application-consistent VMs at

recovery site

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SRM Is Mature and Reliable

Introduced in Q2 2008 > 7,000 customers Over 1 Million VMs protected

If your organization is already taking advantage of virtualization, then adding Site Recovery Manager to handle disaster recovery is a no-brainer.
Jerry Wilkin Senior Systems Administrator, Dayton Superior Corp

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Whats New in SRM 5.1

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Key Components Of SRM 5.1

Required at both protected and recovery sites
vCenter Server
Site Recovery Manager

Site Recovery Manager Manages recovery plans

Automates failovers and failbacks Tightly integrated with vCenter and replication

Virtual Machines

Choice of replication options vSphere Replication Part of vSphere platform

Replicates virtual machines between vSphere clusters

VMware vSphere Servers

Storage-Based Replication (3rd party)

Storage

Provided by replication vendor Integrated via replication adapters created,

certified and supported by replication vendor

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vSphere Replication Part of the Platform

Virtual machines can be replicated irrespective of underlying storage type

Enables replication between heterogeneous datastores

Replication is managed as a property of a virtual machine

Efficient replication minimizes impact on VM workloads

SRM can use either the integrated software replication or storage based replication

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vSphere Replication UI

Select VMs to replicate from within the vSphere client by rightclick options Can configure for an individual VM, or multiple VMs simultaneously!

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SRM Architecture with vSphere Replication

Protected Site
vSphere Client SRM Plug-In

Recovery Site
vSphere Client SRM Plug-In

SRA SRM Server vCenter Server vCenter Server

SRA SRM Server

VR Appliance
vSphere vSphere vSphere

(VR Apliance)

VR Appliance
vSphere vSphere

vRA

vRA

vRA

NFC

NFC

Storage Storage
VMFS VMFS

Replication
VMFS VMFS

Storage

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Quiescent Applications with vSphere Replication

Integrates with VSS and application writers for consistent applications!

VSS writer integration Improved since 1st VR with SRM

]

Works via VMware Tools

Create application consistent copies of entire virtual machines!

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All Paths Down Improvements

vSphere

vSphere

vSphere

vSphere

VMFS

VMFS

More graceful during unmount

Fewer timeouts waiting for missing storage

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Forced Recovery
Site A (Primary)
VMware vCenter Server Site Recovery Manager

Site B (Recovery)
VMware vCenter Server Site Recovery Manager

Unknown state of protected site

VMware vSphere

VMware vSphere

Storage timeouts impact RTO

Servers

Servers

Forced Failover only runs recovery site operations

Avoid delays to RTO when protected site is inconsistent

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Failback Supported with Both Array and vSphere Replication

Easily return environments to the primary production site

Reliable and automated for both ABR and VR

Single button click reverses replication and configures protection

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Now includes vSphere Essentials Plus Support

Supported Versions and Editions Licensing Metric Licensing Requirements

One license per

Site Recovery Manager 5.1 Per VM protected VM

Better support for SMB Customers Continued support for all full editions of vSphere vCenter Standard or Foundation Carries forward Standard and Enterprise editions

Includes powered off

protected VMs

vCenter 5.1
vCenter Server

Two licenses required

Per instance one for the protected site, one for the recovery site

vCenter Standard or
Foundation, Essentials

vSphere 4.x or 5.x

vSphere

Need to license all the

Per proc hosts powered on across both protected and recovery sites

vSphere vSphere
Enterprise Plus, Enteprise, Advanced, Standard or Essentials+

New in SRM 5.1

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Summary Whats New in Site Recovery Manager 5.1

vSphere Replication part of vSphere Platform

Application consistency with vSphere Replication Disk handling improvements (All Paths Down) Forced failover Reprotect and Failback for vSphere Replication and ArrayBased Essentials Plus support

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Key Takeaways

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Key Takeaways

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, in conjunction with

vSphere, enables simple and reliable DR at much lower cost as compared to traditional DR

vSphere Replication is now part of the vSphere Platform, and adds

key new enhancements for application consistency and automated failback

SRM 5.1 delivers key enhancements to lower the cost of DR and

enable lower RTO

Read more at

http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/uptime

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Thank You

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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager What's New and Technical Overview

Bryan Evans, VMware, Inc. Ken Werneburg, VMware, Inc.

#vmworldinf