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Spis treści: 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 www.PacktPub.com Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more Why subscribe? Free access for Packt account holders Instant updates on new Packt books 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