Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0, Rough Cuts
- By Michael Gordon Laverick
- Published Aug 18, 2011 by VMware Press. Part of the VMware Press Technology series.
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Description
- Copyright 2012
- Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8"
- Pages: 528
- Edition: 1st
- Rough Cuts
- ISBN-10: 0-13-284229-7
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-284229-7
This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.
The Complete, Hands-On Guide to Installing and Configuring VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0
Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0 is the complete, technical, hands-on guide to VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.0 installation and configuration for experienced VMware professionals.
VMware forum moderator and vExpert Mike Laverick fully explains SRM 5.0’s failover/failback procedures, walks readers through configuring storage replication with hardware from several leading suppliers, and shows how to efficiently implement fast, automated, centralized disaster recovery. Drawing on his extensive experience with SRM and vSphere, Laverick identifies common pitfalls and errors, explains why they occur, and shows exactly how to fix them.
Fully up to date for SRM 5.0, this book delivers “in-the-trenches” technical knowledge you won’t find anywhere else, including expert guidance for utilizing SRM 5.0’s advanced new vSphere Replication (VR).
Coverage includes
- Going “under the hood” with SRM 5.0 to thoroughly understand its operation
- Configuring SRM 5.0 with Dell EqualLogic Replication, EMC Celerra Replicator, EMC CLARiiON MirrorView, HP StorageWorks P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance with Remote Copy, and NetApp SnapMirror
- Configuring multiple LUN/volumes with virtual machines and virtual disks
- Installing VMware SRM and configuring vSphere Replication (VR)
- Using VR to replicate VMs across locations without third-party storage array-based replication
- Using VR to replicate a single VM or groups of VMs to the Recovery Site
- Efficiently configuring protected and recovery sites
- Using Reprotect Mode to accelerate failback and enhance VM portability
- Using dependencies and priority orders to configure SRM based on your existing categories of applications and services
- Leveraging SRM 5.0’s scalability improvements to serve large-scale and/or cloud environments
- Defining custom recovery plans
- Working with alarms, export histories, and access control
- Implementing bidirectional relationships and shared site configurations
- Scripting automated site recovery
- Upgrading from SRM 4.1 to SRM 5.0
Sample Content
Table of Contents
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
About the Author xxiii
Chapter 1: Introduction to Site Recovery Manager 1
What’s New in Site Recovery Manager 5.0 1
A Brief History of Life before VMware SRM 5
What Is Not a DR Technology? 7
What Is VMware SRM? 10
What about File Level Consistency? 11
Principles of Storage Management and Replication 12
Summary 19
Chapter 2: Getting Started with Dell EqualLogic Replication 21
Creating an EqualLogic iSCSI Volume 23
Granting ESXi Host Access to the EqualLogic iSCSI Volume 26
Enabling Replication for EqualLogic 31
Using EqualLogic Host Integration for VMware Edition (HIT-VE) 39
Summary 42
Chapter 3: Getting Started with EMC Celerra Replication 43
Creating an EMC Celerra iSCSI Target 46
Granting ESX Host Access to the EMC Celerra iSCSI Target 51
Creating a New File System 56
Creating an iSCSI LUN 59
Configuring Celerra Replication 64
Summary 72
Chapter 4: Getting Started with EMC CLARiiON MirrorView 73
Creating a Reserved LUN Pool 75
Creating an EMC LUN 78
Configuring EMC MirrorView 80
Creating a Snapshot for SRM Tests 85
Creating Consistency Groups (Recommended) 88
Granting ESX Host Access to CLARiiON LUNs 90
Using the EMC Virtual Storage Integrator Plug-in (VSI) 93
Summary 95
Chapter 5: Getting Started with the HP StorageWorks P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance with Remote Copy 97
Some Frequently Asked Questions about the HP P4000 VSA 98
Downloading and Uploading the VSA 100
Configuring the VSA (Management Groups, Clusters, and Volumes) 108
Adding ESX Hosts and Allocating Volumes to Them 120
Summary 129
Chapter 6: Getting Started with NetApp SnapMirror 131
Provisioning NetApp NFS Storage for VMware ESXi 133
Creating NetApp Volumes for Fibre Channel and iSCSI 139
Configuring NetApp SnapMirror 147
Introducing the Virtual Storage Console (VSC) 155
Summary 158
Chapter 7: Installing VMware SRM 161
Architecture of the VMware SRM 161
Setting Up the VMware SRM Database with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 180
Installing the VMware SRM Server 186
Summary 199
Chapter 8: Configuring vSphere Replication (Optional) 201
How vSphere Replication Works 201
vSphere Replication Limitat