1. So, continuing on an article I did for the PHD Virtual
backup and recovery solution, which can be used to
protect your VMware vSphere environment I wanted
to give more detail on the replication and export
features of the product. It doesn't have to be said
but backup and recovery is key in any data
protection suite. Now if you can couple backup and
recovery with replication and provide a means to
transfer that critical backup data to a remote location
for disaster recovery (DR), you'll have a much more
complete solution.
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2. PHD Virtual Backup backs its data up directly to disk This presents an
advantage from going directly to tape because now with any replication
process the data can also be moved to tape media using another backup
product that can backup to tape media The PHD Virtual Backup solution
comes with replication built in and is easy to setup and configure
3. They also include an Exporter for moving backups out of the virtual backup
appliance (VBA) to an external folder location Setting online backup reviews
up the replication requires a secondary (VBA) at a remote location Once the
secondary VBA is setup and on the network you'll have to: Go to the
"Connectors" tab under Configuration on the Source backup appliance
4. Select the "Enable share for VM Replication and/or Exporter" checkbox then
set a password for the phd user Next go to the Destination VBA and Add the
Source VBA under the Replication tab providing your particular information in
the required fields Now the heavy lifting is done
5. All that's left is to create the replication job This is easily done by going to the
Replication area and selecting the VM's you'd like to replicate from the "Virtual
Machines Available for Replication" tab Click the Replicate button and a
wizard driven process for creating the job appears
6. Provide the appropriate information like job name, storage location, network
settings, and scheduling parameters then Start the job The replication process
creates a VM at the destination then replications the latest VM data from the
most current backup Once the replication process has completed you can test
the replicated VM backup or start a failover in the case of a disaster
7. You could even use this as a means to migrate VM's across the network for
planned moves And what makes this even better is that your using a single
product to do backups, recoveries, and replication for disaster recovery or
migrations that's excessible from the vSphere client
