Architected by: Hany Michael

vRealize Suite

Cairo City Active Site

Active VM

172.16.10.10,20,30

NSX

One-Arm-LB

172.16.10.12

vRA 7 Appliance

Edge Services Gateway

172.16.10.13

172.16.10.14

172.16.10.15

172.16.10.16

172.16.10.17

Standby VM

vR-Operations

vR-Business

vRA IaaS

MS-SQL Server

vR-Log Insight

NSX

Virtual Appliance

vRA, vRO, vIDM, Datastore

Virtual Appliance

Universal Logical Switch - VXLAN 5010

Edge Services Gateway

Stretched Data Plane

Uplink 1: 192.168.80.11

OSPF
ECMP

NSX

192.168.80.1

NSX

Virtual Appliance
Uplink

192.168.80.2

Virtual Appliance
Uplink

ISP

ISP

(1)

(2)

DC 1 Core

192.168.100.6

DC 2 Core

192.168.100.1

192.168.100.0/24

VLAN 110

vrasso.corp.local

172.16.10.11

vra.corp.local
vraiaas.corp.local

172.16.10.12
172.16.10.15

DC/DNS 2

192.168.210.1

192.168.210.10

SRM Secondary
192.168.210.35

192.168.110.40
VM Replication over IP

vSphere Replication

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Protection Group Dev App

Recovery Plan Prod One

Recovery Plan
Prod
One
DB-Tier
Priority
0
Priority 1
App-Tier
Web-Tier
Priority 2

192.168.210.0/24

NSX

HBR

esxi402.corp.local

esxi(n).corp.local

Web

App

OS

OS

SR
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Datacenter (n)
Live
Migration

App
OS

Universal Logical Switch

vSphere Admin

PSC 02

esxi501.corp.local

esxi601.corp.local

esxi502.corp.local

esxi(n).corp.local

esxi602.corp.local

esxi(n).corp.local

VSAN

VSAN

Cluster

Cluster

Cluster

Workload Recovery

Datacenter (1)

192.168.210.50

VSAN

Protection Group: vRA Infra

Long Distance vMotion

Manager Secondary

192.168.210.44

Recovery Plan vRA Infra

Recovery Plan
Prod
One
DB-Tier
Priority
0
Priority 1
App-Tier
Web-Tier
Priority 2

HBR

Cross-vCenter vMotion to live migrate the

workloads from one datacenter to another.
Both vCenter Servers must be part of the same
SSO domain to perform the LDvMotion from the
WebClient.

Management Cluster

SR

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Dev/Test Cluster

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Production Cluster

6.2
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Management Cluster

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Workload Mobility

Protection Group Prod App

Recovery Plan Prod One

6.0
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HBR

Controllers Configuration

vCenter Server 02

esxi401.corp.local

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esxi(n).corp.local

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esxi302.corp.local

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esxi202.corp.local

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esxi301.corp.local

Cluster

Priority 0
Priority 1
Priority 2
Priority 5

6.

192.168.200.6

192.168.210.45

vSphere Replication

an

Database
vRA Web
vRA Mgr
vRA VAs

esxi201.corp.local

VSAN

Protection Group vRA Infra

172.16.10.12
172.16.10.15

192.168.210.40

esxi101.corp.local

esxi(n).corp.local

172.16.10.11

vra.corp.local
vraiaas.corp.local

192.168.110.35

192.168.110.44

esxi102.corp.local

vrasso.corp.local

SRM Primary
vCenter Server 01

ESG 02

Virtual Appliance

Uplink

192.168.200.0/24

VLAN 210

192.168.110.45

PSC 01

VLAN 200

Uplink

Replicated Entries

192.168.110.1

192.168.110.10

NSX

Virtual Appliance

192.168.200.5

RTT 150ms

DC/DNS 1

NSX

192.168.90.2

Internal

ESG 01

192.168.110.0/24

Manager Primary
192.168.110.50

192.168.90.1

192.168.200.1

WAN / MPLS

Name Resolution

3 x Controllers

OSPF-ECMP
Peering

OSPF
ECMP

Universal Logical Switch - VXLAN 5090

Internal

OSPF-ECMP
Peering

ESG 02

192.168.100.5
VLAN 100

VXLAN Transport

INTERNET

Internal

ESG 01

NSX

Local Egress

VXLAN Transport

Universal Logical Switch - VXLAN 5080

Internal

Control VM

Uplink 2: 192.168.90.11
Local Egress

NSX

End-user Access
only to TCP443

Internal IF 172.16.10.1

Stretched Data Plane

NSX

DFW

Security Rules
Admin Access
From specific subnet

Admin Access
From specific subnet

Universal Controller Cluster

Resources

One-Arm-LB

Dev/Test Cluster

Control VM

172.16.10.0/24

Production Cluster

Software-Defined Networking

End-user Access
only to TCP443

NSX

SRM

172.16.10.10,20,30

Cross-Site Net/Sec Configuration Synchronization

DFW

Operations

Virtual Appliance

Virtual Machine

Virtual Machine

Security Rules

Management

Alexandria City Active Site

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Recovery Plan Prod App

Recovery
RecoveryPlan
Plan Prod
ProdOne
One
Protection Group: Prod One

Recovery Plan Dev App

Recovery
RecoveryPlan
Plan Prod
ProdOne
One
Protection Group: Dev One

Site Recovery Manager

Cross-Datacenter workloads failover and recovery

using vCenter SRM.
Each datacenter much have its own independent
management stack like vCenter Server, vCenter
SRM and vSphere Replication.

Datacenter (1)

Datacenter (n)

Web

App

OS

OS

Failover
Recovery

App
OS

Universal Logical Switch

Network & Security configuration is synchronized
automatically with NSX.

Network & Security configuration is synchronized

automatically with NSX.

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