Some IT initiatives, such as disaster recovery, are natural fits for cloud computing. Yet it can be challenging to know exactly where to begin when it comes to configuring self-managed recovery plans and replicating virtual machines (VMs) from on-premises to a cloud service provider.
VMworld 2013: VMware Disaster Recovery Solution with Oracle Data Guard and Si...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Kannan Mani, VMware
Brad Pinkston, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
VMworld 2013: VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager – Solution Overview and Le...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Mauricio Barra, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Thomas McQuillan, UnitedHealth Group
vCenter Site Recovery Manager: Architecting a DR SolutionRackspace
VMware’s vCenter Site Recovery Manager is the market-leading disaster-recovery management product. It ensures the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. However, it is not a turn-key DR solution. Architecting your SRM solution requires deep thought and heavy planning. This presentation will help you with planning and architecting your SRM solution as well as addressing specific configuration and installation challenges. Our goal is to help you deploy and maintain a solid SRM solution to enable your DR Plan.
VMworld 2013: VMware Disaster Recovery Solution with Oracle Data Guard and Si...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Kannan Mani, VMware
Brad Pinkston, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
VMworld 2013: VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager – Solution Overview and Le...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Mauricio Barra, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Thomas McQuillan, UnitedHealth Group
vCenter Site Recovery Manager: Architecting a DR SolutionRackspace
VMware’s vCenter Site Recovery Manager is the market-leading disaster-recovery management product. It ensures the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. However, it is not a turn-key DR solution. Architecting your SRM solution requires deep thought and heavy planning. This presentation will help you with planning and architecting your SRM solution as well as addressing specific configuration and installation challenges. Our goal is to help you deploy and maintain a solid SRM solution to enable your DR Plan.
VMware Site Recovery Manager - Architecting a DR Solution - Best Practicesthephuck
This was the slide deck from the Philadelphia VMUG User Conference for the VMware Site Recovery Manager - Architecting a DR Solution session on May 15th, 2014.
Private Cloud Academy: Backup and DPM 2010Aidan Finn
The session I ran on how to design CSV for Hyper-V backups, and how to use DPM 2010, at the Microsoft/System Dynamics Private Cloud Academy in Dublin, Ireland.
Metro Cluster High Availability or SRM Disaster Recovery?David Pasek
Presentation explains the difference between multi site high availability (aka metro cluster) and disaster recovery. General concepts are similar for any products but presentation is more tailored for VMware technologies.
VMworld 2013: Storage DRS: Deep Dive and Best Practices to Suit Your Storage ...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Sachin Manpathak, VMware
Mustafa Uysal, VMware
Sunil Muralidhar, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
My experience with embedding PostgreSQLJignesh Shah
At my current company, we embed PostgreSQL based technologies in various applications shipped as shrink-wrapped software. In this session we talk about the experience of embedding PostgreSQL where it is not directly exposed to end-user and the issues encountered on how they were resolved.
We will talk about business reasons,technical architecture of deployments, upgrades, security processes on how to work with embedded PostgreSQL databases.
Implementing a Disaster Recovery Solution using VMware Site Recovery Manager ...Paula Koziol
IBM Spectrum Virtualize delivers business continuity capabilities using a stretched cluster configuration together with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). The result is an end-to-end disaster recovery solution for organizations of all sizes. Join this session to understand how IBM Spectrum Virtualize, including offerings like IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and IBM Storwize Family, integrates with VMware SRM to automate and optimize disaster recovery operations. Everyone who works in mission critical environments understands the need for high availability and effective solutions for planned and unplanned outages. Organizations demand disaster recovery operations that are fully automated and can be executed in a repeatable manner, so that they are always prepared for disaster situations. This IBM-VMware solution offers SMB and enterprise customers the ability to survive a wide range of failures and enables seamless migration of applications across company sites for various planned activities, enabling zero-downtime application mobility.
TECHNICAL BRIEF▶ Backup Exec 15 Blueprint for Large InstallationsSymantec
This Backup Exec Blueprint presentation includes example diagrams that contain objects that represent applications and platforms from other companies such as Microsoft and VMware. These diagrams may or may not match or resemble actual implementations found in end user environments. Any likeness or similarity to actual end user environments is completely by coincidence.
The goal of the diagrams included in this blueprint presentation is not to recommend specific ways in which to implement applications and platforms from other companies such as Microsoft and VMware but rather to illustrate Backup Exec best practices only.
For guidelines and best practices on installing and configuring applications and platforms from other companies, please refer to best practice documentation and other resources provided by those companies.
VMware Site Recovery Manager - Architecting a DR Solution - Best Practicesthephuck
This was the slide deck from the Philadelphia VMUG User Conference for the VMware Site Recovery Manager - Architecting a DR Solution session on May 15th, 2014.
Private Cloud Academy: Backup and DPM 2010Aidan Finn
The session I ran on how to design CSV for Hyper-V backups, and how to use DPM 2010, at the Microsoft/System Dynamics Private Cloud Academy in Dublin, Ireland.
Metro Cluster High Availability or SRM Disaster Recovery?David Pasek
Presentation explains the difference between multi site high availability (aka metro cluster) and disaster recovery. General concepts are similar for any products but presentation is more tailored for VMware technologies.
VMworld 2013: Storage DRS: Deep Dive and Best Practices to Suit Your Storage ...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Sachin Manpathak, VMware
Mustafa Uysal, VMware
Sunil Muralidhar, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
My experience with embedding PostgreSQLJignesh Shah
At my current company, we embed PostgreSQL based technologies in various applications shipped as shrink-wrapped software. In this session we talk about the experience of embedding PostgreSQL where it is not directly exposed to end-user and the issues encountered on how they were resolved.
We will talk about business reasons,technical architecture of deployments, upgrades, security processes on how to work with embedded PostgreSQL databases.
Implementing a Disaster Recovery Solution using VMware Site Recovery Manager ...Paula Koziol
IBM Spectrum Virtualize delivers business continuity capabilities using a stretched cluster configuration together with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). The result is an end-to-end disaster recovery solution for organizations of all sizes. Join this session to understand how IBM Spectrum Virtualize, including offerings like IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and IBM Storwize Family, integrates with VMware SRM to automate and optimize disaster recovery operations. Everyone who works in mission critical environments understands the need for high availability and effective solutions for planned and unplanned outages. Organizations demand disaster recovery operations that are fully automated and can be executed in a repeatable manner, so that they are always prepared for disaster situations. This IBM-VMware solution offers SMB and enterprise customers the ability to survive a wide range of failures and enables seamless migration of applications across company sites for various planned activities, enabling zero-downtime application mobility.
TECHNICAL BRIEF▶ Backup Exec 15 Blueprint for Large InstallationsSymantec
This Backup Exec Blueprint presentation includes example diagrams that contain objects that represent applications and platforms from other companies such as Microsoft and VMware. These diagrams may or may not match or resemble actual implementations found in end user environments. Any likeness or similarity to actual end user environments is completely by coincidence.
The goal of the diagrams included in this blueprint presentation is not to recommend specific ways in which to implement applications and platforms from other companies such as Microsoft and VMware but rather to illustrate Backup Exec best practices only.
For guidelines and best practices on installing and configuring applications and platforms from other companies, please refer to best practice documentation and other resources provided by those companies.
Guaranteeing Storage Performance by Mike Tutkowskibuildacloud
This session will introduce the basics of primary storage in CloudStack. Additionally, I discuss the challenges of guaranteeing storage performance in a cloud and how by leveraging the latest enhancements to CloudStack, storage administrators can deliver consistent, repeatable performance to 10s, 100s or 1,000s of application workloads in parallel. I'll review the CloudStack enhancements in detail, outline the management benefits they provide and discuss common go-to-market approaches.
About Mike Tutkowski
Mike Tutkowski, a member of the CloudStack PMC, develops software for the Apache Software Foundation's CloudStack project to help drive improvements in its storage component and to integrate SolidFire more deeply into the product.
Kubernetes enables possibilities to develop cloud native microservices or decompose traditional applications making them more technologically advanced with the help of containers. Currently, most of the Kubernetes solutions are offered on top of VMs and there is a room for further improvements. Implementing nested architecture of application containers running inside system containers opens additional flexibility of resource allocation and management, accelerates provisioning of the clusters and pods, as well as cuts the overall costs. In this presentation we cover the possibilities of running a Java-based application inside Kubernetes cluster with nested container architecture, what configurations should be taken into account, and how to overcome the barriers on the way to more efficient Kubernetes hosting.
VMworld 2013: Maximize Database Performance in Your Software-Defined Data CenterVMworld
VMworld 2013
Mark Achtemichuk, VMware
Michael Webster, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
VMworld 2013
Kiran Madnani, VMware
Rawlinson Rivera, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
An introduction to the basics of primary storage in CloudStack, including a discussion of the challenges of guaranteeing storage performance in a cloud. Learn how to leverage the latest enhancements to CloudStack to enable storage administrators to deliver consistent, repeatable performance to 10s, 100s or 1,000s of application workloads in parallel. View now for a detailed look at CloudStack enhancements, the management benefits they provide, and common go-to-market approaches.
VMworld 2013: How SRP Delivers More Than Power to Their Customers VMworld
VMworld 2013
Sheldon Brown, SRP
Girish Manmadkar, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
We're constantly reminded about how fleeting time is—but what if you had more time? What would you do? We decided to illustrate some of the answers we found on Twitter.
If you're looking to get some time back in your day, consider letting Rackspace manage your servers. We can focus on the tech so that you can focus on innovation.
Learn more about Rackspace: http://rackspace.com
Learn more about this project: https://blog.rackspace.com/moretime-question-ages
Learn how to overcome security challenges, such as: identity theft, spoofed transactions, DDoS business disruption, criminal extortion and more. You'll learn how a security strategy promotes confidence in the cloud.
6 Commonly Asked Questions from Customers Building on AWSRackspace
This session is ideal for IT/Infrastructure Manager, Application Developers, System Architects/Administrators and anyone who is growing their AWS footprint. We will uncover recent customer experiences at every stage while you can network with peers that face similar challenges.
The Evolution of OpenStack – From Infancy to EnterpriseRackspace
As OpenStack turns 5 this year, we thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the evolution of OpenStack. We start with a quick overview of what OpenStack is, how OpenStack came to be and describe the OpenStack Foundation. Next we describe the problem that OpenStack helps to solve, the components of OpenStack and the timeline for when these components came to be. Last, we outline the current features and benefits that make OpenStack ready for the enterprise with supporting Enterprise use case examples. Blog can be found here (
https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/evolution-of-openstack-from-infancy-to-enterprise/) and webinar can be found here (https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11427/138613)
Data is being generated at a feverish pace and forward thinking companies are integrating big data and analytics as part of their core strategy from day one. However, it is often hard to sift through the hype around big data and many companies start with only a small subset of data. Can smaller companies benefit from big data efforts? We will discuss several use cases and examples of how startups are using data to optimize their operations, connect with their users, and expand their market.
Deploy Apache Spark™ on Rackspace OnMetal™ for Cloud Big Data PlatformRackspace
There's an elephant in the room when it comes to Big Data. Apache Hadoop and Spark offer the promise to transform how businesses leverage Big Data, finding the right mix of flexible deployments, elastic scalability, and performance can be daunting.
Introducing Rackspace OnMetal™ for Apache Spark™ an industry first that combines the performance and efficiency of bare metal with the ease and flexibility of cloud. With Rackspace OnMetal for Cloud Big Data Platform you can transform how you run Hadoop and Spark workloads:
•Deploy in minutes, not months
•Spin instances up or down on demand
•Process data in-memory for faster query times
•Get bare metal performance and say goodbye to virtualization taxes
Sign up and learn how Rackspace OnMetal for Cloud Big Data Platform can rapidly move your organization from planning to deploying.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - Welcome Keynote featuring Rackspace CTO John EngatesRackspace
Solving business challenges - that was the focus at Rackspace::Solve in New York City, the second of three one-day summits that showcase how companies are overcoming the toughest challenges in their businesses and for their customers. In this presentation, Rackspace CTO John Engates kicks off the day with an overview of some of those challenges, and the various ways some of our customers and partners help solve them by using Rackspace's Managed Cloud offerings.
Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) is the #1 managed cloud company. Our technical expertise and Fanatical Support® allow companies to tap the power of the cloud without the pain of hiring experts in dozens of complex technologies. Rackspace is also the leader in hybrid cloud, giving each customer the best fit for its unique needs — whether on single- or multi-tenant servers, or a combination of those platforms. Rackspace is the founder of OpenStack®, the open-source operating system for the cloud. Headquartered in San Antonio, we serve more than 200,000 business customers from data centers on four continents. We rank 29th on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - Solving for Rapid Customer Growth and Scale Through De...Rackspace
At Rackspace::Solve NYC, Jon Hyman, CIO of Appboy and Prashanth Chandrasekar, GM of DevOps at Rackspace, discuss the role of DevOps in helping to solve the technical challenges that come with rapid growth.
Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) is the #1 managed cloud company. Our technical expertise and Fanatical Support® allow companies to tap the power of the cloud without the pain of hiring experts in dozens of complex technologies. Rackspace is also the leader in hybrid cloud, giving each customer the best fit for its unique needs — whether on single- or multi-tenant servers, or a combination of those platforms. Rackspace is the founder of OpenStack®, the open-source operating system for the cloud. Headquartered in San Antonio, we serve more than 200,000 business customers from data centers on four continents. We rank 29th on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - Second Stage CloudRackspace
James Staten, VP and top Analyst at Forrester Research discusses tech adoption of cloud computing at Rackspace::Solve New York. Staten explains the Second-Stage Cloud, which means that the optimization phase of client-server is ending while we enter the rationalizations phase of cloud computing. This makes the cloud-competition today based on “service-value”, causing a hyper-growth for cloud services.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - Solving for Rapid Customer Growth and Scale Through De...Rackspace
At Rackspace Solve New York, Jon Hyman, CIO of AppBoy, shared how AppBoy uses Rackspace’s DevOps Automation Services to increase app engagement for their clients, including Urban Outfitters and Shape Magazine. With Rackspace’s managed cloud providing support, Appboy was able to excel rapid customer growth and scale through DevOps.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - The Future of Applications with Ken Cochrane, Engineer...Rackspace
What does intermodal shipping have to do with managing your app’s components in different environments? Ken Cochrane, Engineering Manager at Docker, explains in this presentation from Rackspace::Solve NYC. For more information about Rackspace::Solve, visit http://www.rackspacesolve.com.
Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) is the #1 managed cloud company. Our technical expertise and Fanatical Support® allow companies to tap the power of the cloud without the pain of hiring experts in dozens of complex technologies. Rackspace is also the leader in hybrid cloud, giving each customer the best fit for its unique needs — whether on single- or multi-tenant servers, or a combination of those platforms. Rackspace is the founder of OpenStack®, the open-source operating system for the cloud. Headquartered in San Antonio, we serve more than 200,000 business customers from data centers on four continents. We rank 29th on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Outsourcing IT Projects to Managed Hosting of the CloudRackspace
Is your organization looking to cut costs, reduce deployment time, or gain new capabilities that you find challenging to implement with traditional on-premises infrastructure? Then outsourcing IT may be right for you.
Nearly every IT leader these days is wresting with Shadow IT – the dynamic in which end users obtain IT solutions from cloud service providers without informing corporate IT.
Migrating Traditional Apps from On-Premises to the Hybrid CloudRackspace
Re-architecting legacy apps for the public cloud is very resource intensive. However, migrating apps to a hosted hybrid cloud that’s composed of bare-metal servers, VMware® virtualization, EMC® storage and public cloud offers cloud-bursting benefits, but with less risk and cost. Check out our presentation and learn the five-step path to hybrid cloud.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
1. DR-to-the-Cloud
Best Practices
Effectively Configure Self-Managed Recovery
Plans and Move Critical VM Replication from
On-Premises to a Cloud Service Provider
2. Cloud Computing is a
natural fit to protect
your organization
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Disasters Happen
3. How can you leverage a cloud service provider as a DR
target site when you’re running a production VMware
environment in your own data center?
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5. • Disaster strikes. Initiate a failover. Complete
restoration by:
1. Replicating virtual machines (VMs) and the data
hosted by the apps in the private cloud
2. Bringing up replicated data at the service
provider target site
• Replicated data temporarily runs on a replicated
application environment to help ensure continuity
until service at the original source can be restored.
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A Real-World Business Continuity Scenario
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6. 6
Validated Architecture Reduces Downtime
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• Protect on-premises production VMs with VMware
recovery technologies
• Replicate VMs to an off-premises cloud service
provider using EMC storage solutions
7. 7
The Components
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• Existing license and installation of VMware
vCenter Server™ 5.1 or higher with
VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery
Manager™ 5.1 or higher for runbook
automation and failover protection
• EMC VNX® series for dedicated storage
area network (SAN) storage
• EMC RecoverPoint® appliance or
RecoverPoint as a virtual appliance (RPA
or vRPA), 4.0 or higher, for bidirectional
replication
• Rackspace Dedicated VMware® vCenter
Server™ offering for the hosted target
environment with its capabilities to be
managed directly using VMware vSphere®
API-compatible tools such as the VMware
vSphere Web Client or Site Recovery
Manager
• EMC VNX series for dedicated SAN
storage
• EMC RPA 4.0, for bidirectional replication
Existing Data Center
Company On-Premises
DR Target Site
Cloud Provider Off-Premises
8. 8
What Is Dedicated VMware vCenter Server?
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Technology and Capabilities
• Use same familiar third-party tools for
management
• Connect directly to the vSphere API
• Programmatically provision VMs instantly via
scripts, or via orchestration tools like VMware
vCloud® Automation Center™
• Leverage existing internal VMware skill set for
Rackspace-hosted infrastructure
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Prerequisites for Real-World Scenario
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Company Rackspace
• vCenter Server and Site Recovery
Manager
• VNX storage array
• Either physical or virtual RecoverPoint
appliance
• Required network segmentation with a
consistent addressing scheme between
sites
• Rackspace Dedicated VMware vCenter
Server offering
• VNX storage array
• Physical RecoverPoint appliance
• Required network segmentation with a
consistent addressing scheme between
sites
10. • Configure or reconfigure Site Recovery Manager
to use specific network ports (e.g., SOAP and
HTTP) to communicate with vCenter servers and
the EMC storage solution
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Network Requirements
• Access the Dedicated vCenter environment at
Rackspace using either a secure VPN
connection over the Internet or a dedicated
network connection
• Configure firewalls to use all of the required
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network ports
• Configure the Rackspace target site to match the
networks and settings used by your VMware
environment
11. • Use the wizard to pair your VMware environment
and Dedicated vCenter at Rackspace.
• If pairing fails, a troubleshooting guide is available
– [See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1037682.]
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Setting Up Site Recovery Manager
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12. • Match the Dedicated vCenter environment by first
creating a vm_swap Logical Unit Number (LUN)
• Configure all hypervisors in a cluster with Site
Recovery Manager protected VMs to place VM
swap files on the non-replicated vm_swap
datastore
Note: The VM swap file location must be correct to
not impact the speed of the migration.
[See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004082.]
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Storage Requirements
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13. Recommendations to help plan for growth:
• Ensure the size of the vm_swap LUN is at least equal to the total vRAM of all VMs configured to use the
LUN or double the physical RAM in the entire cluster
• Create a vm_placeholder LUN to hold the placeholder VMs that Site Recovery Manager creates
• Record which internal storage mappings and drives attached to VMs onsite aren’t being replicated to the
Rackspace target site
• Make sure all mapped drives will be maintained
• Include “srm” in the file name to be sure only replicated data stores are imported into Site Recovery
Manager
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Rightsizing and Managing Storage
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14. • A journal, stored at the target site, holds images (snapshots) that are either waiting to be distributed or
have already been distributed to the storage array
• Snapshots preserve the state of the VM data at a specific point in time
• Capacity sizing a journal is critical because RPA provides LUN replication both onsite and the Rackspace
target site
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The EMC RPA Journal
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15. • Determine capacity sizing of journals per consistency group and also define the protection window (i.e.,
how far back in time a rollback can be performed)
• Have the correct performance characteristics to handle the total write performance required, as well as the
capacity to store all the writes by the LUN(s) being protected
Notes: Because each journal holds as many images as capacity allows, the oldest image will be removed to
make room for the newest one [only for already distributed images at both sites]. Actual number of images in
a journal varies.
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Sizing the EMC RPA Journal
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16. • A minimum journal size is 10 GB
• Each journal in a consistency group must be large enough to support business requirements for that
group
• EMC recommends using the following minimum journal calculation when not using snapshot
consolidation:
– Minimum journal size = 1.05 * [(data per second)*(required rollback time in seconds) / (1 – image access log size)] +
(reserved for marking) Note: To determine the value of your data per second, use ostat (UNIX) or Perfmon (Windows). [For
more information about snapshot consolidation, see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015180.]
– Rackspace recommends the following journal storage calculation when using Site Recovery Manager: Calculate your daily %
change rate (15% if not known) and how many days you’ll run a DR test (we use up to 7 days)
– Usable data store size * change rate * days of testing = journal LUN. The generic calculation is: Usable data store size
* 15% * 7 = journal size
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17. Sizing the EMC RPA Journal
“EMC recommends that the performance of journal storage is equal to
that of production storage. You should also plan to allocate a dedicated
RAID group for the journal volumes. RAID5 is a good option for large
sequential I/O performance.
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18. • Another consideration in sizing the journal is the percent of journal space allocated for image access
• The default use of the journal LUN is 80% for incoming data replication and 20% for image access
• To run VMs in a Site Recovery Manager test, the image access portion of the journal is used for temporary
write access to disks
• To allow a Site Recovery Manager test to run long enough to validate a DR plan, Rackspace recommends
changing the image access allocation to 40% of the journal LUN
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19. • The smallest, logical grouping of VMs possible in
Site Recovery Manager, protection groups
• Specify which on-premises VMs should be included in
the failover to a Rackspace target site
• Encompass one or more data stores and all VMs
located on them
• Protection groups map to array-based storage and
must contain at least one replicated data store
• All LUNs in a single consistency group must be in
the same protection group
• Data stores and VMs can only be members of one
protection group
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Identifying Protection Groups
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20. • Create a list of steps to establish a process that specifies which assets will failover from onsite data center
operations to the Rackspace site
• Include the prioritization of assets in the event of a disaster or test
• Understand recovery options
Notes:
• Recovery plans created in Site Recovery Manager can be configured as a single recovery plan or multiple
recovery plans
• Recovery plans can be associated with one or more protection groups
• Multiple recovery plans for a protection group can be applied depending on different recovery priorities
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Documenting Recovery Plans
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21. • During a test, Site Recovery Manager:
– Creates a test environment—including network and storage infrastructure—isolated from the production
environment
– Rescans the ESX servers at the recovery site to find iSCSI and Fibre Channel (FC) devices, and mounts
replicas of NFS volumes
– Registers the replicated VMs
– Suspends nonessential VMs, if specified, at the recovery site to free up resources for the protected VMs being
failed over
– Completes the power-up of replicated protected VMs in accordance with the recovery plan before providing a
report of test results
• During test cleanup, Site Recovery Manager:
– Automatically deletes temporary files
– Resets the storage configuration in preparation for a failover or the next scheduled test
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Documenting Recovery Plans
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Recovery Process
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Planned Migration Mode Disaster Recovery Mode
Both sites are running normally
and no errors are expected in
the failover process
One site is offline due to a
failure and errors are expected
during the failover, but the
process must continue
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Recovery Process Option #1
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Disaster Recovery Mode
Site Recovery Manager performs the following operations:
• Shuts down the protected VMs
• Synchronizes any final data changes between sites
• Suspends data replication and read/write enables the replica storage devices
• Rescans the ESX servers at the recovery site to find iSCSI and FC devices, and mounts replicas of
NFS volumes
• Registers the replicated VMs
• Suspends nonessential VMs, if specified, at the recovery site to free up resources for the protected
VMs being failed over.
• Completes the power-up of replicated protected VMs in accordance with the recovery plan before
providing a report of failover results
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Recovery Process Option #2
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Planned Migration Mode
Site Recovery Manager performs same operations as planned migration except
for the following:
• Doesn’t abort the process if one step fails
• Continues the failover process to recover at the target site
Once a failover is complete, Site Recovery Manager performs a re-protect process, reversing the
direction of replication after a failover, then automatically re-protecting protection groups
Note: If errors are encountered, the failover must be re-run when the source site is available or the
errors are resolved
25. • Recovery plans require the use of the Site Recovery Manager console plugin in the vCenter
client
• Warning message prompts execution validation
• Once confirmed, the process will perform the following steps:
– Shut down protected VMs if connectivity between sites and they are online
– Synchronize any final data changes between sites
– Suspend data replication and read/write enable the replica storage devices
– Rescan the ESX servers at the recovery site to find iSCSI and FC devices and mount replicas of NFS volumes
– Register the replicated VMs
– Suspend nonessential VMs (if specified) at the recovery site
– Complete power-up of replicated protected VMs in accordance with the recovery plan
– Provide a report of failover results
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Testing Without Interruption of Production Environments
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Roles and Responsibilities
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Initial Configuration Customer Rackspace
Business
Continuity (BC)/
Disaster Recovery
(DR)
• Creates, maintains, and manages BC/DR plan
and procedure using existing license of Site
Recovery Manager for runbook automation and
failover protection.
• Offers Dedicated vCenter for the hosted target
environment with its capabilities to be managed directly
using vSphere API-compatible tools such as the
vSphere Web Client or the Site Recovery Manager
plugin to the vCenter client.
• Maintains EMC VNX series for dedicated SAN storage.
• Maintains EMC RPA for bidirectional replication.
Networking
• Defines target network for VMs during test
and failover.
• Configures target networks.
Monitoring
• Ensures recovery plan consistency.
• Monitors replication operations at the source
site.
• Monitors replication space utilization at the
source site.
• Monitors replication operations at the target site.
• Monitors replication space utilization at the target
site.
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Roles and Responsibilities
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Initial Configuration Customer Rackspace
Data Replication • Defines and configures replication frequency.
• Matches storage replication frequency defined by the
customer.
Recovery Time
Objective (RTO)
• Defines desired RTO.
• Requests appropriate hardware to support RTO.
• Recommends appropriate hardware to support RTO.
Recovery Point
Objective (RPO)
• Defines desired RPO.
• Requests appropriate hardware to support RPO.
• Configures replication.
• Recommends appropriate hardware to support RPO.
• Matches customer-defined replication configuration.
Define/Change
Recovery Plan
• Creates, maintains, and manages recovery plan.
• Implements recovery plan.
Customer
Applications
• Configures applications for recoverability at target
site.
Change
Management
• Maintains a change management program for all
protected VMs and the supporting environment.
• Requests appropriate changes be made at BOTH
the source and target sites.
• Collaborates with the customer to verify environment
consistency prior to scheduled test or planned failover
events.
• Updates customer if inconsistencies are found.
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Site Recovery Manager
Operations
Customer Rackspace
Test Recovery
Plan
• Develops scope and objectives.
• Tests the recovery plan using
• Rackspace Dedicated vCenter Server.
• Verifies functionality and conduct testing at the
target site.
• Facilitates and monitors tests.
Recovery Test
Cleanup
• Confirms conclusion of test.
• Backs up or documents changes needed in
production systems.
• Performs cleanup operation.
• Facilitates and monitors cleanup operations.
Planned
Migration
• Develops scope and objectives.
• Initiates a planned failover of the recovery plan
using Rackspace Dedicated vCenter Server.
• Initiates failover of any additional resiliency
services.
• Performs re-protect process, reversing protection
from the target back to the source site.
• Verifies functionality at the target site.
• Initiates migration back to source site.
• Monitors planned migration.
• Reconfigures Rackspace services for VMs at target
site, if needed.
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