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VMware Site Recovery Manager
The document focuses on VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 6.5, highlighting its features for disaster recovery including automated workflows, zero-downtime application mobility, and policy-based management. It emphasizes the importance of application uptime and the economic impacts of downtime, showcasing SRM's capabilities to streamline disaster recovery processes while reducing costs. The presentation also mentions its integration with VMware solutions and third-party replication systems, making it an effective tool for managing disaster recovery in cloud environments.
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- 1. © 2017 VMwareInc. All rights reserved. VMware Site Recovery Manager Web Seminar 1 Luca Codispoti Systems Engineer | VMware Italy 26/10/2017
- 2. Disaster Recovery isJust Part of Much Broader Effort 2(1) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/10/aws_cloud_data_center_fire/ Amazon Web Services data center in Loudoun County, Virginia, US (1) Disaster Recovery Disaster Avoidance HurricanesData Center Migration Application Availability and Mobility across Sites
- 3. Source: Forrester -The State Of Business Technology Resiliency, Q2 2014 Application Uptime is Key to Deliver IT Services at Global Scale 3 Productivity Revenue Reputation Compliance 93% of businesses that lose their data center for 10 days go bankrupt within one year
- 4. 40% of companiesstill use TAPE for DR protection of mission-critical apps Source: Forrester - The State Of Business Technology Resiliency, Q2 2014
- 5. Traditional Disaster RecoverySolutions Can Lead to Extended Periods of Downtime 5 Patchwork of solutions Manual processes Complex Unreliable Infrequent testing Error-prone recovery Duplicate server and storage Large time investment Expensive Software Hardware Time >$2,2K per VM (1) Source: The Total Economic Impact of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, Forrester, May 2013
- 6. Site Recovery Manager6.5 Solution Overview 6
- 7. VMware Site RecoveryManager 6.5 Simple and Reliable Recovery of VMs across Sites with Minimal or No Downtime vSphere vSphere Production Site Recovery Site Servers ServersArray-based replication vSphere Replication • Automation software to orchestrate application recovery and mobility across sites • Centralized recovery plans for thousands of VMs • Non-disruptive recovery testing • Automated orchestration workflows (failover, migration, failback) • Support for broad range of 3rd party replication solutions from major storage vendors • Integrated with vSphere Replication Overview Site Recovery Manager Site Recovery Manager
- 8. Key Components ofa Site Recovery Manager Solution vCenter Server Site Recovery Manager Protected Site Recovery Site Storage vCenter Server Site Recovery Manager vSpherevSphere Storage
- 9. vSphere Replication 3rd partyreplication solutions Key Components of a Site Recovery Manager Solution Protected Site vSphere Storage Site Recovery Manager vSphere or vCenter Server One instance installed at each site (Protected and Recovery) Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) provided by storage vendor One virtual appliance installed at each site vCenter Server Site Recovery Manager
- 10. Virtualization Fundamentally ImprovesDisaster Recovery vSphere Virtual SAN Encapsulation Consolidation Server HW Independence vSphere vSphere vSphere Policy-based management Hyper- convergence Storage HW Independence x86 Servers
- 11. SRM Is AnAward-Winning Solution With Proven Track Record üMature product introduced in 2008 üThousands of customers üOver 3 Million VMs protected üAward-winning four years in a row 11 Best Business Continuity Product “...In Venezuela, our factory suffered a massive fire. Two hours and 40 minutes after we were notified, that factory was running in our DR site in New Jersey.” David Giabruna, SVP and CIO, Revlon Thousands of Customers
- 12. What’s New inVMware Site Recovery Manager 6.5 12 Industry-leading solution for application availability and mobility in private cloud environments Zero-downtime application mobility ü Orchestrated cross-vCenter vMotion using recovery plans ü Support for metro-distance stretched storage Policy-based Management ü New Protection Groups using vSphere SPBM’s storage profiles ü Enables integration with VMware vRealize Automation Integration with VMware NSX ü Automated networking mapping when creating a recovery plan ü Preserve network and security policies on recovered VMs VM “vCenter” removed from name
- 13. Reasons To ChooseSite Recovery Manager 6.5 13 Fast and Reliable Recovery Simple and Policy- Based Management Zero-Downtime Mobility Up to 50% Lower TCO • Non-disruptive testing • Automated failover and migration • Automated failback • VMware NSX integration • vMotion integration • Stretched storage support • Array-based replication support • vSphere Replication support • Centralized recovery plans • Storage policy-based management • vSphere Web Client plug-in • vRealize Orchestrator plug-in • Reduce TCO by 30% through management and testing automation(1) • Decreases TCO by 20% eliminating replication software(1) (1) The Total Economic Impact of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, Forrester, May 2013
- 14. SRM 6.5 Provides Fastand Reliable Recovery 14
- 15. Automated DR WorkflowsEnsure and Speed Up Recovery Main site Recovery site Non-disruptive Testing • Automated testing in isolated network • Increases predictability of recovery time objectives (RTO) Automated Failback • Re-protect from Site B to A using original recovery plan • Streamlines bi-directional migrations Automated Failover • Single-click initiation • Emphasizes fastest possible recovery after outage Planned Migrations • Ensures zero data loss and app consistency • Enables disaster avoidance and Data Center maintenance SRM Replication
- 16. NSX Integration –Reduce OpEx and Accelerate Recovery 16 Implicit Mapping Distributed Switch Distributed Switch SRM BSRM A NSXUniversal Logical Switch • SRM 6.1 supports NSX 6.2 cross-vCenter logical switches • Automatic mapping of networks • Preserved network and security rules on recovered VMs Overview • Reduce OpEx • Decreased manual configurations post- recovery • Faster recovery time by 40%1 or more Benefits (1) VMware Performance Engineering – internal testing
- 17. Frequent Testing ImprovesPredictability of Recovery Objectives TimeDR Test DR Test TESTING GAP Recovery Risk Traditional DR Recovery Risk DR Test DR Test Time Site Recovery Manager Frequent DR Testing “Testing on our virtual estate is much more automated and easier than on the physical side.” SRM customer(1) (1) The Total Economic Impact of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, Forrester, May 2013
- 18. Testing With SRMSimplifies Regulatory Compliance 18 Regulatory Compliance is key in many industries Procedure 86-19 EFA Act, 1989 BAsel II FDA CFR title XXI 1999 FERC RM01- 12-00 2003 HIPAA 1996 NERC P6T3 ISO 9000 All Industries Financial Healthcare Utilities Manufacturing SRM provides detailed reports with recovery testing results
- 19. SRM 6.5 Enables ZeroDowntime Application Mobility 19
- 20. SRM Supports SeveralDR Topologies Active-Passive Failover Active-Active Failover Bi-directional Failover Shared Recovery Sites Production Recovery Production Recovery Production Production • Dedicated resources for recovery • Run low-priority apps on recovery infrastructure • Production applications at both sites • Each site acts as the recovery site for the other • Many-to-one failover • Useful for Remote Office / Branch Office Active-Active Data Centers Site 1 Site 2 Production • Production apps at both sites • Zero downtime for planned events • Typically limited to a metro distance
- 21. Cross-vCenter vMotion Integrationand Stretched Storage Support – Zero Downtime Disaster Avoidance 21 vSphere vSphere Production Site (Active) Recovery Site (Active) Site Recovery Manager Site Recovery Manager Stretched Storage <100KM distance • Cross vCenter vMotion for planned events • DR orchestration of VMs in the event of site failure • “Day 0” support for three solutions, others coming: – EMC VPLEX | IBM SVC | HDS VSP Overview • Zero-downtime disaster avoidance and planned mobility • Faster disaster recovery time • Testing and orchestration on active-active topology Benefits vMotion
- 22. SRM 6.5 Offersa Different Model for Active-Active Data Centers 22 Stretched vSphere Cluster Stretched Storage HA Restart vMotion vCenter Server Site A (active) Site B (active) vSphere Stretched Storage SRM Orchestration Cross-vCenter vMotion vCenter Server Site A (active) Site B (active) vSphere SRM vCenter Server SRM VMware Metro Storage Cluster (VMSC) Site Recovery Manager 6.1 + Stretched Storage VMSC Capability SRM 6.1 - vSphere HA restart Disaster Recovery - SRM orchestration - manual “per VM” vMotion Disaster Avoidance - orchestrated cross-vC vMotion - DRS Site Load Balancing - orchestrated cross-vC vMotion Automatic Failover - partner based, external trigger(1) No testing DR Testing - non-disruptive testing No site awareness Management Resiliency - active VC at each site (1) Failover can be triggered by third system witness via SRM API
- 23. 3rd Party Array-BasedReplicationvSphere Replication™ SRM Continues to Expand its Replication Ecosystem 23 ü Hypervisor-based replication ü Storage independent ü Included with vSphere at no cost ü Natively integrated with SRM “The ability for storage vendors to plug into SRM was critical. We can easily coordinate all of our products.” (1) The Total Economic Impact of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, Forrester, May 2013
- 24. vSphere Replication (VR) Hypervisor-basedReplication for vSphere VMs 24 vSphere Site A vSphere vSphere Replication SAN NAS Virtual SAN Virtual SAN NAS SAN Site B (1) Multiple point-in-time (2) Included with vSphere Essentials Plus or higher editions Solution Description • VR is VMware’s proprietary technology for hypervisor-based replication of vSphere virtual machines Key Features • VM-centric, storage-independent • Flexible RPO (15 min. to 24 hrs.) • MPIT(1) recovery (up to 24 replicas) • Network-efficient “light-weight delta” replication Key Benefits • Simplifies replication of virtual machines • Reduces storage and bandwidth investments • Integrated with the VMware product stack • Included with vSphere(2) at no additional cost
- 25. vSphere Replication ProvidesThe Most Flexible VM Protection 25 • Flexible RPO enables protection according to app needs and available bandwidth • MPIT recovery ensures recoverability in case of data corruption • VM-centric replication simplifies management • Storage-independence eliminates need for matching storage across source and target
- 26. SRM 6.5 Delivers Simpleand Policy- Based Management 26
- 27. Transforms Management OfRecovery And Migration Plans v Weeks or months to set up recovery plans v Unstructured and manual makes them error-prone v Quickly fall out of sync with infrastructure changes ü Simple set up in minutes ü Software-defined workflows eliminate errors ü Simple to update and keep in sync with changes From Complex Runbooks… …to Simple Recovery Plans
- 28. SRM Is NowEven Simpler To Deploy And Manage 28 Converged UI with vSphere Simplified IP address management Faster installation SRM plugin for the vSphere Web Client Rule-based re-IPing at the subnet level Optional embedded vPostgres database
- 29. Storage Policy-based Management– Simpler Management in Private Cloud Environments 29 Storage-Policy Protection Groups (SPPG) Automated… ü Association of new datastores with SPPG ü Protection of VMs on replicated datastores within SPPG ü Removal of VMs from SPPG when datastore is removed Storage Policy-Based Mgmt
- 30. Self-Service, Policy-Based DRProtection For Apps Capabilities • Self-service DR provisioning using vRealize Automation blueprints • Automated protection mapping according to pre-defined tiers Architecture Production Site vSphere Site Recovery Manager Recovery Site vSphere Site Recovery Manager Array-based Replication External Storage External Storage vRealize Automation • vRealize Orchestrator plugin for SRM • Integration with vR Automation • New APIs exposed for PowerCLI integration Benefits • DR control delivered as a service to app tenants • Quicker time to market for apps • Reduced complexity for infrastructure admins
- 31. SRM 6.5 Can LowerTCO by up to 50% 31
- 32. Automation Reduces TheCost Of Disaster Recovery DR Costs per VM per Year Source: The Total Economic Impact of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, Forrester, May 2013 $1.757 $800 $800 $288 $288 $477 $477 $- $500 $1.000 $1.500 $2.000 $2.500 Manual DR SRM only SRM + vSphere Replication DR management and testing SRM Software Replication $2,234 $1,564 -30% $1,087 -21% Downtime ü Over $1,100 savings per year for each protected VM ü Avg. cost of downtime is $145,000 per hour ü Planned migrations add 5% cost savings 50% lower DR costs (not factoring cost of downtime)
- 33. SRM 6.5 Enablesthe Entire Spectrum of Recovery Objectives Continuous Hours Days App-level geo-clustering / load balancing RPO SynchronousHoursDays Site Recovery Manager Tier 1 Apps Tier 2 Apps Tier 3 Apps Minutes Minutes Support for synchronous replication solutions Live migration of VMs using stretched storage RTO
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- 35. Site Recovery Manager6.5 – Editions Lineup Update 35 Site Recovery Manager Standard Enterprise Licensing & Pricing • Max. protected VMs 75 VMs per site No licensing limit Features • Centralized recovery plans ● ● • Non-disruptive testing ● ● • Automated disaster recovery failover ● ● • Planned data center migration ● ● • Automated re-protection and failback ● ● • Array-based replication support ● ● • vSphere Replication support ● ● • VMware NSX integration ● • Stretched Storage support ● • Orchestrated cross-vCenter vMotion ● • Storage Policy Protection Groups ● Note: Regional pricing exists in standard VMware currencies. Please check local pricelists for more detail New in SRM 6.5
- 36. SRM Licensing ScenariosAnd Requirements 36 Replication A to B Uni-directional protection Bi-directional protection vSphere vCenter SRM vSphere vCenter SRM vSphere vCenter SRM vSphere vCenter SRM Replication B to A Licensing Requirements SRM Standalone vCloud Suite Ent* • vCloud Suite Ent • vCenter Server • (No SRM required) • vSphere • vCenter Server • SRM Std / Ent • vSphere • vCenter Server • vCloud Suite Ent • vCenter Server • SRM Std / Ent • vSphere • vCenter Server • vCloud Suite Ent • vCenter Server Replication A to B • (No SRM required) • vSphere • vCenter Server • SRM Std / Ent • vSphere • vCenter Server Site A Site B Site A Site B * Licensing scenarios valid customers that own vCloud Suite 6 or prior
- 37. Want to LearnMore about Site Recovery Manager 6.5? 37 Web Resources1 3 Free Evaluation Online Hands on Lab2 • Test-drive Site Recovery Manager right from your browser—with online Hands-on Labs • 60-day Free Evaluation • Test Site Recovery Manager Standard in your own environments • Learn more with customer case studies, industry analyst papers and technical resources Learn more from the experts in the VMware Storage Blog… Virtual Blocks blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/ labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/lab/3666 vmware.com/go/try-srmvmware.com/go/srm
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