VMware VC-SRM4-A - vCenter Site Recovery Manager Dokumentacja

1 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems Technical Report Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recover

10 roles are seized it is very important that the clone never be connected to a production VM Network, and that it is destroyed after DR testing is c

11 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems 5.3 SRA AND DATA ONTAP VERSION DEPENDENCIES Certain v

12 Figure 6 Supported Replication Example Figure 7 Supported Replication Example Relationships where the data (vmdk or RDM) owned by any

13 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems Figure 9 Unsupported Replication Example Any replicat

14 • In iSCSI environments ESX hosts at the DR site must have established iSCSI sessions to the DR site vFiler prior to executing SRM DR test or fai

15 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems scheduled using NetApp software such as the built-in s

16 6.3 USING HTTPS/SSL TO CONNECT TO THE NETAPP CONTROLLERS By default the NetApp storage adapter connects to the storage array via API using HTTP.

17 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems 3. The protection-side array will be listed at the bo

18 Once the array is added successfully, the Protection Arrays section at the bottom of the screen will indicate the replicated storage is properly d

19 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems Figure 11 SRM Site and Array Manager Relationships 6.

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1! INTRODUCTION ...

20 3. Verify that all the primary resources have the associated corresponding secondary resources. 4. Each of the connection, array managers, and

21 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems .vmx files replicated from the primary site are used.

22 5. The Site Recovery Summary tab now indicates that one protection group has been created. Note that in vCenter at the DR site a placeholder vir

23 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems environment as described in the design section, then t

24 7 EXECUTING RECOVERY PLAN: TEST MODE When running a test of the recovery plan SRM creates a NetApp FlexClone of the replicated FlexVol Volume at

25 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems creates NFS exports. Then SRM initiates a storage resc

26 Figure 13 Screenshot of VM to Network Map view in vCenter Client while in DR Test Mode 6. When completed with DR testing, click the continue lin

27 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems - DR site VMware license services. - The DR site ha

28 2. Make a remote desktop connection to a system at the DR site. Lauch the vSphere client an log into vCenter and select Site Recovery application

29 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems 9. If necessary and possible, isolate the primary sit

3 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems 8.1! REQUIREMENTS AND ASSUMPTIONS ...

30 9.2 RESYNCING: PRIMARY STORAGE RECOVERED Recovering back to an existing primary site, where an outage occurred but the primary array data was not

31 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems For more information about the snapmirror resync comm

32 hosts may be required for DR testing just as with the original failover setup. 14. Verify that the SnapMirror relationship has completed transfe

33 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems 9.3 RESYNCING: PRIMARY STORAGE LOST In this case the

34 18. Execute an SRM recovery plan in the opposite direction as was done in the disaster recovery. 19. Verify the recovered environment and allow

35 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems Another option, with regard to infrastructure server d

36 it is necessary to configure the environment with an igroup for each ESX host, rather than creating one igroup for the entire cluster or group of

37 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems directories exist, it might be necessary to delete and

38 VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0 Performance and Best Practices for Performance www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-vCenter-SRM-WP-EN.pdf SRM

39 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems APPENDIX A: VMS WITH NONREPLICATED TRANSIENT DATA If t

4 2.1 A TRADITIONAL DR SCENARIO When failing over business operations to recover from a disaster, there are several steps that are manual, lengthy,

40 1. In the vCenter server at the primary site right-click the ESX cluster and select Edit Settings. Click Swapfile Location and choose the option

41 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems Delete the sched.swap.derivedName option. This line w

42 configure the location of the Windows pagefile, as well as some other miscellaneous temporary data, can be found in TR-3428: NetApp and VMware Vir

43 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems 12. Proceed to the Storage Devices step. Select the v

44 15. Make the appropriate changes for each of the virtual machines until they are all configured properly. 16. Click the Summary tab and confirm

45 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems APPENDIX B: NON-QUIESCED SMVI SNAPSHOT RECOVERY By def

46 © Copyright 2012 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. No portions of this document may be reproduced without prior written consent of NetApp, Inc. S

5 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems each other. Virtual machines can be quickly and easily

6 3.3 NETAPP FLEXCLONE When NetApp FlexClone® technology is combined with SnapMirror and SRM, testing the DR solution can be performed quickly and e

7 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems Unified protocol support – The unified storage adapter

8 Figure 3 SRM Environment Layout 4.2 IP ADDRESS CHANGES Some environments may be able to use the same network IP addresses at both the primary sit

9 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems SRM and the NetApp adapter will support connecting to a