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.
E’ un’estensione di VMware vCenter che fornisce ai professionisti IT la possibilità di disaster recovery, migrazione di siti e funzionalità di test non distruttive.
Disaster Recovery Cookbook - Secret recipes for hybrid-cloud success.
Digital era make organizations must depend on system to operate, but sometime organizations facing the downtime and data loss which are expensive threats.
In this webinar you will learn how to selecting the right solution to protect, move, and recover mission-critical application with near 0% data loss in cost-effective model.
E’ un’estensione di VMware vCenter che fornisce ai professionisti IT la possibilità di disaster recovery, migrazione di siti e funzionalità di test non distruttive.
Disaster Recovery Cookbook - Secret recipes for hybrid-cloud success.
Digital era make organizations must depend on system to operate, but sometime organizations facing the downtime and data loss which are expensive threats.
In this webinar you will learn how to selecting the right solution to protect, move, and recover mission-critical application with near 0% data loss in cost-effective model.
VMware terminology can be confusing
this presentation tries to clarify some names and analyze vRealize Operations in-depth.
Check my books about VMware products at https://beacons.ai/tagido
Oracle RAC Virtualized - In VMs, in Containers, On-premises, and in the CloudMarkus Michalewicz
This presentation discusses the support guidelines for using Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) in virtualized environments, for which general Oracle Database support guidelines are discussed shortly first.
First presented during DOAG 2021 User Conference, this presentation replaces its predecessor from 2016: https://www.slideshare.net/MarkusMichalewicz/how-to-use-oracle-rac-in-a-cloud-a-support-question
Disaster Recovery Planning using Azure Site RecoveryNitin Agarwal
Disaster recovery and business continuity solutions have been historically expensive and time consuming. Microsoft Azure Site Recovery (ASR) makes Disaster Recovery (DR) planning and implementation simpler and affordable for all types of organizations.
Join our team of cloud experts for a walk through of DR and ASR basics. We'll highlight best practices for ASR deployments and help you get a sense of the costs for implementing a solution.
Azure Site Recovery - BC/DR - Migrations & assessments in 60 minutes!Johan Biere
Gain high level understanding of various challenges faced by organizations in planning their Migration and BC/DR Strategy for applications in Azure and Hybrid.
Learn about the capabilities that make Azure the ideal destination for your applications, data, and infrastructure. You will get clear, scenario-based guidance on how to approach your technical migration & innovation journeys. Understand how to migrate different on-premises applications to Azure, including moving them to Azure IaaS Using ASR with Hyper-V Assessments & Agentless migration.
Oracle RAC 12c Practical Performance Management and Tuning as presented during Oracle Open World 2013 with Michael Zoll.
This is part three of the Oracle RAC 12c "reindeer series" used for OOW13 Oracle RAC-related presentations.
This part concludes the main part of the "reindeer series" except for one bonus track "Oracle Multitenant meets Oracle RAC 12c" (available via SlidesShare, too).
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 terminology can be confusing
this presentation tries to clarify some names and analyze vRealize Operations in-depth.
Check my books about VMware products at https://beacons.ai/tagido
Oracle RAC Virtualized - In VMs, in Containers, On-premises, and in the CloudMarkus Michalewicz
This presentation discusses the support guidelines for using Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) in virtualized environments, for which general Oracle Database support guidelines are discussed shortly first.
First presented during DOAG 2021 User Conference, this presentation replaces its predecessor from 2016: https://www.slideshare.net/MarkusMichalewicz/how-to-use-oracle-rac-in-a-cloud-a-support-question
Disaster Recovery Planning using Azure Site RecoveryNitin Agarwal
Disaster recovery and business continuity solutions have been historically expensive and time consuming. Microsoft Azure Site Recovery (ASR) makes Disaster Recovery (DR) planning and implementation simpler and affordable for all types of organizations.
Join our team of cloud experts for a walk through of DR and ASR basics. We'll highlight best practices for ASR deployments and help you get a sense of the costs for implementing a solution.
Azure Site Recovery - BC/DR - Migrations & assessments in 60 minutes!Johan Biere
Gain high level understanding of various challenges faced by organizations in planning their Migration and BC/DR Strategy for applications in Azure and Hybrid.
Learn about the capabilities that make Azure the ideal destination for your applications, data, and infrastructure. You will get clear, scenario-based guidance on how to approach your technical migration & innovation journeys. Understand how to migrate different on-premises applications to Azure, including moving them to Azure IaaS Using ASR with Hyper-V Assessments & Agentless migration.
Oracle RAC 12c Practical Performance Management and Tuning as presented during Oracle Open World 2013 with Michael Zoll.
This is part three of the Oracle RAC 12c "reindeer series" used for OOW13 Oracle RAC-related presentations.
This part concludes the main part of the "reindeer series" except for one bonus track "Oracle Multitenant meets Oracle RAC 12c" (available via SlidesShare, too).
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.
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.
Build Your Custom Performance Testing FrameworkTechWell
Performance testing requires knowledge of systems architecture, techniques to simulate the load equivalent of sometimes millions of transactions per day, and tools to monitor/report runtime statistics. With the evolution from desktop to web and now the cloud, performance testing involves an unparalleled combination of different workloads and technologies. There is no one tool available—either commercial or open source—that meets all performance testing needs. Some tools act as load generators; others only monitor system resources; and many only operate for specific applications or environments. Prashant Suri shares the essential components you need for a comprehensive performance test framework and explores why each component is required for a holistic test. Learn how to develop your custom framework―starting with parsing test scripts in a predefined format, iterating over test data, employing distributed load generators, and integrating test monitors into the framework. Discover how building your own framework gives you flexibility to challenge multiple performance problems—and save thousands of dollars along the way.
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
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.
#Firmday 28 march 2014 Rackspace - how to onboard a fanaticEmma Mirrington
Eddie Gleeson, On-boarding & Business Skills Manager at Rackspace, will share with us how they prepare people for working in a high-growth, super high-change environment with a 'fanatical' commitment to delivering a great customer experience with a session called 'How to On-board a Fanatic'
As the world of system and application deployment continues to change, the sys admin and security community needs to change with it. With agile development, continuous deployment, the pace of change in IT has only increased. Add in Dev/Ops and the traditional sys admin and security processes just don’t work. How can you rapidly deliver servers and applications while making sure they are built reliably and securely. Rackspace has been developing a tool to help them design, deploy and security assess complex configurations for customers called Checkmate. This talk will cover the concepts behind and the architecture of Checkmate and how it helps minimize the time to deploy systems and verify they have been created to spec and in a secure state. A discussion of how Checkmate has inspired the concept of Test Driven Security based on the Test Driven Development model familiar to the development world.
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
VMworld 2013: Real-world Design Examples for Virtualized SAP Environments VMworld
VMworld 2013
Vas Mitra, VMware
Mohan Potheri, VMware
Markus Winter, SAP
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
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Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
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We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
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Speakers:
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VMware Site Recovery Manager - Architecting a DR Solution - Best Practices
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Virtualization Architect
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How SRM Works
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• Test
– What does “Non Disruptive” really mean?
• Cleanup
– What happened to my test VMs?
• Recovery
– How does it really work?
– How do I “Fail Back”?
• Reprotect
– Under the hood
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Basic SRM Functions
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Planning to use SRM
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• What apps should you protect?
• Where and how should you recover applications?
• Vendor Support
• SRM Operationally
• RPO
– vSphere Replication = as low as 15min
– NetApp = as low as 5min
– EMC CRR = <5min
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• Networking
• Storage
– EMC RecoverPoint
• Journal Space
–EMC Recommends 20%
•(Datastore Size) X (Percent Rate of Change) X (Days of Test) =
Journal Size
•10TB, 6% RoC, 7-day SRM Test: 10 X .06 X 7 = 4.2 = 4.2TB total
Journal space
– NetApp SnapMirror
• 20% SnapReserve
• Plan to Test
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• Documentation is KING!
• Management Cluster
• vCenter Simple vs Custom Install
• vCenter Appliance or not?
• Where to install SRM
• Configure firewalls to allow communication
– Between Protected & Recovery vCenter & SRM servers
– SRA to talk to storage
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Architecting
TEST
Non Disruptive leaves source VMs up
Spins up a snapshot of data at target site, so may impact performance at target site.
May have duplicate IPs
Test “Bubble” networks only validate SRM functionality, not good for a real test
CLEANUP
Wipes away snapshot & deltas, doesn’t save anything DESTROYS data
RECOVERY
Storage Sync
Shutdown VMs
Remove Storage
Final Storage Sync
Stops Replication
Can revive suspended Hosts or Suspend/Pause VMs
Presents writable storage to hosts
Imports VMs (replaces placeholders)
Powers on VMs
In order to failback, must run Reprotect
REPROTECT
Reverses Storage Replication
Also reverses Recovery Plan
If IP change in use, flips Protected & Recovery site config to match new Recovery site
What apps should you protect?
Business Critical Apps: Keep The [Business] Lights On (KTLO)
Not everything will be needed in Disaster Recovery
Apps: T0-3
Where
Own a second datacenter for Active/Active?
CoLo? – can downsize in Disaster to save costs
Active/Active is best
Vendor
Microsoft = NO for DCs
SQL = Log Shipping, Availability Groups
SRM
Separate Management Cluster
All-In-One vs vCenter + SRM
Still need supporting services for 5.1+: SSO, Inventory, DB, etc
IP Change
GUI = 1:1 VM change – slow, hard to manage
Dr-ip-customizer.exe – easier way to export ALL VMs, update CSV, re-Import
No IP Change
Extend VLAN - Dot1q tunneling
Same IP Segment for SRM-Only VMs
Separate for everything else
Routing – same IP at both sites vs IP change
Testing
Isolate source?
AD & DC
data poisoning
Separate networks for testing?
Storage
RecoverPoint doesn’t consolidate data during a test, Journal Log may fill up, Journal Image Access may fill up
NetApp – consolidates snaps while in test
Documentation = Visio
List all communication paths of all vCenter integrations.
Minimum of two hosts in management cluster for HA & DRS
SSO, vCenter, Web Client, Inventory, VUM, SRM, database, & SRA communication paths, ports
Storage replication connectivity
Size vCenters accordingly: Min simple “all-in-one” 2CPU, 12GB RAM, 60GB disk (without DB)
vCenter by itself: 2CPU 4GB RAM
Appliance is self-contained SSO, Inventory, Web Client, & vCenter
Sizing Limitations (internal DB): 100 hosts, 3000 VMs
Same as full vCenter with Oracle db
Still need Windows server for SRM & VUM
Okay to install SRM on same server as vCenter if sized properly
SRM Min: 1CPU, 2GB of RAM, 5GB disk space
Get 3rd party certificates BEFORE installation
CN = “SRM”
SAN = server.fqdn
extendedKeyUsage = serverAuth, clientAuth
On 5.1, cannot use complex passwords, no special characters, check before deploying 5.5
SRA installations may require specific Java version, NetApp, for instance.
vCenter “Administrator” role permissions are automatically propagated to SRM, anything else needs to be manually added
Array Managers require user account with special permissions. Have to add Array Pair (source & target) and enable to discover replicated volumes, LUNs, Consistency Groups.
NetApp import by export name “SRM”, EMC RPA by CG managed/Controlled by SRM
Can adjust RPA Portion used image access, we set to 40%
Protection Group is grouping of Datastores. Must have separate Protection Groups to failover different Apps or Tiers
Datastore can be in only ONE Protection Group
Protection group can be member of multiple Recovery Plans
Can have multiple Recovery Plans, but Boot Priority is attribute of the VM within the Protection Group. If you change Boot Priority in one Recovery Plan, it will update it in ALL Recovery Plans
Can set VM dependencies within same boot Priority group only. Can span Protection Groups, but must be in same Recovery Plan
IP is Attribute of VM, only ONE IP per NIC, but DHCP, Subnet, GW, Alt GW, DNS & suffix, WINs for both Protected & Recovery sites
Additional Options: Shutdown Action, Startup Action, delay for Post-Power On Action, Pre/Post Power-On Actions
Pre-Power On = Script on SRM server or User Prompt
Post-Power On = Script/Command on VM Guest OS, Script on SRM Server, or User Prompt
Adding a new Datastore – Volume or LUN must be a member of the replication set and visible in the Array Manager
Adding VMs requires “Configure Protection” or “Configure All”
Removing VMs requires “Remove Protection”
Remove Datastore from Protection Group, remove from replication set, refresh Array Manager
There is no migration from different SRM servers, no export of config, no backup outside of full database backup
Only “migration” would be to build a new server and point to current database
