Site Recovery Manager Customer Overview...VMware Site Recovery Manager is a new product for disaster...

VMware Site Recovery Manager Overview

Q2 2008

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Executive Summary

VMware virtual infrastructure transforms organizations’ability to protect their datacenterVMware Site Recovery Manager is a new product for disaster recovery that does the following:

Simplifies and automates key disaster recovery workflows: setup, testing, failoverSimplifies and centralizes management of recovery plansMakes it easy for customers to leverage their investment in storage replication technologies with their virtual infrastructure

This combination of disaster recovery automation with the capabilities of VMware Infrastructure reduces time to recovery, risk, complexity and cost


Agenda

Disaster Recovery ChallengesIntroducing VMware Site Recovery ManagerSummary


Requirements for Disaster Recovery

Minimize Downtime

93% of companies that lost their data center for ten days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster.

--National Archives and Records Administration

Control Cost

Minimize Risk

73% of executives expressed concern with the costs associated with maintaining a secondary data centre

--Beacon Technology Partners

92% of users surveyed acknowledged that their companies would face serious consequences if they had to implement their disaster recovery plans.

--Dynamic Markets Ltd.

Effective disaster recovery is a business imperative, but is very difficult to achieve


Challenges of Disaster Recovery

Minimize downtime

Reduce risk

Control cost

Many manual processes for recoveryMultiple steps to overcome hardware differencesIncomplete or out-of-date runbooks

Testing requires additional hardware and infrastructureUsually only data is regularly and cleanly updatedFrequent failures during recovery

Simplest recovery requires identical hardwareIdle recovery hardware is impossible to repurposeMultiple third-party products necessary for recovery


Agenda



VMware Vision for Disaster Recovery

Rapid> Automate recovery process> Eliminate failures due to hardware dependencies> Integrate different components of recovery

Reliable> Enable easier, more frequent testing> Turn manual, inconsistent processes into

pre-programmed, repeatable processes

Manageable> Centralize and simplify management of recovery plans> Make disaster recovery protection a property of

virtual infrastructure

Affordable > Eliminate idle recovery hardware> Eliminate dependencies on physical infrastructure


• Hardware Independence

• Instant Repurposing

Failover

CostReliability

Planning And Acquisition

Testing

•

DRS And Resource Pools

• Encapsulation• Boot From Shared Storage

•

Snapshots•

VLANs

BusinessConcern

AssociatedDR Workflow

SupportingVI3 PlatformFeatures

VMware Infrastructure Adds Value To DR Today

Time to Recovery (RTO)

Awards“Best Disaster Recovery Product of 2006”

(TechTarget)

55% of customers using virtualization for BC/DR

(#1 reason for virtualization behind consolidation/resource utilization)

Customers


Simplifies and automates disaster recovery workflows:

Setup, testing, failoverTurns manual recovery runbooks into automated recovery plansProvides central management of recovery plans from VirtualCenter

Introducing VMware Site Recovery Manager

Works with VMware Infrastructure to make disaster recovery rapid, reliable, manageable, affordable

Site Recovery Manager leverages VMware Infrastructure to deliver advanced disaster recovery management and automation


Site Recovery Manager Core Capabilities

Centralized management for DRCreate, test, update and execute recovery plans from a single point of management

Tight integration with VirtualCenter

Disaster recovery automationBuild recovery process in advance

Automate testing of recovery plans

Automate execution of recovery process

Simplified setup and integrationAllocate and manage recovery resources

Easy integration with leading vendors’

storage replication systems

Storage

Servers

Virtual Machines

ESXServer

ESXServer

ESXServer

ESXServer

VirtualCenterSite

Recovery Manager


Key Components

VMware Infrastructure 3 deployment

Storage

Servers

VMware Infrastructure

Virtual Machines

VirtualCenter


Key Components

Storage

Servers


Virtual Machines

VirtualCenterSite

Recovery Manager

Site Recovery Manager> Manages and monitors recovery plans> Tightly integrated with VirtualCenter

Storage Partner Replication> Integrated via replication adapters created,

certified and supported by replication vendor

Partner Replication

VMware Infrastructure> Requires ESX Server 3.0.2 or later> Requires VirtualCenter 2.5 or later

Storage> iSCSI or FibreChannel storage


Key Components

Storage

Servers


Virtual Machines

VirtualCenterSite

Recovery Manager

Storage

Servers


VirtualCenterSite

Recovery Manager

Partner Replication

Site Recovery Manager

Protected virtual machines

Virtual Machines

Production Disaster Recovery


Site Recovery Manager Management Interface

Disaster recovery management is another view of your environment

Viewed from VirtualCenter management client

Central point of management for virtual infrastructure and disaster recovery

Site Recovery Manager

VirtualCenter

VirtualCenter client


Disaster Recovery Setup

Create recovery plans For virtual machines, applications, business units

Integrate with replicationIdentify which virtual machines are protected by replication configuration

Map recovery resourcesServer resources, network resources, management objects

Specify recovery processConvert manual runbook to pre-

programmed responseCustomizable with scripting and callouts


Setup: Mapping Recovery Resources

Maps production resources to resources available at recovery site

Virtual machine hierarchy

Resource pools

Network connections

Eliminates complexity of managing recovery site resources

Production Disaster Recovery


SRM PROTECTED SITE

SRM RECOVERY SITE

Protected and Recovery Site Datacenters


Protected Site VMware Topology Map


User Interface

Local and Paired Site

Protection Setup

RecoverySetup

SRM UI Access


Setup: Building Recovery Plans

Turn manual runbook into automated process

Specify steps of recovery process in VirtualCenter

Extensible framework Scripts for specialized tasksCheckpoints for manual stepsEnables integration with physical recovery


At the protection site the following setup activities are completed:The user pairs the SRM servers at the protected and recovery sites

Security certificates are established between the SRM servers and the VC servers

Setup Workflow – Protection Site


Array Managers ConfigurationSelect the correct Manager Type from the Manager type drop down box

Storage Partner ParticipationVMware provides the SRA specificationStorage Partners create the SRAStorage Partners test the SRA VMware review the SRA test resultsSRA support with SRM granted if all test are passed

Storage Partners

Setup Workflow – Protection Site - continued

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SRM identifies available arrays in the Protection and Recovery Side and the replicated datastores and determines the datastore groups

Protection Side Array Discovery

Recovery Side Array Discovery

Replicated Datastoresand

Datastore Groups

Setup Workflow – Protection Site (continued)


Using the Inventory Preferences Mapper, the user maps resources in the protected site to their counterparts in the recovery site.



A protection group is a group of VMs that will be failed over together to the recovery site

Working through the Protection Group wizard you will need to select a temporary location for placeholder VM configuration files for the protected VMs at the recovery site.



Working through the Protection Group wizard a user selects which VMs need to be protected and assigns them to a protection groupThe creation of a protection group results in VC inventory updates in the recovery site



At the recovery site the following setup activity is completed: The user creates a recovery plan which is associated to a single

or multiple protection groups

Setup Workflow – Recovery Site


Recovery PlanVM Shutdown

High PriorityVM Recovery

Prepare Storage

High PriorityVM Shutdown

Normal PriorityVM Recovery


►SRM Recovery Plan Benefits:turn manual BC/DR run books into an automated process

specify the steps of the recovery process in VirtualCenter

Provide a way to test your BC/DR plan in an isolated environment

at the recovery site without impacting the protected VMs in the protected site

Low PriorityVM Recovery

Post Test Cleanup

Storage Reset

Recovery Plan - continued


Testing

Replication ManagementSnapshot replicated LUNs before testDelete snapshots of replicated LUNs after test

Network ManagementChange all virtual machines to a test port group before powering them on

Customization/extensibilitySame breakpoints and callouts as failover sequenceExtra breakpoints and callouts around the test bubble


Testing a Recovery PlanSRM enables you to ‘Test’ a recovery plan by simulating a failover

with zero downtime to the protected VMs in the protected site

Site A - Protected Site

Source LUN(shared-san-2)

Site B - Recovery Site

Clone LUN(shared-san-2)

Read WriteEnabled

Data Replication continues between the Source LUN and Target LUNThe data synchronization between the Target LUN and the Clone LUN is suspended

Target LUN(shared-san-2)

Note: Datastore ‘shared-san-1’ will be in the same configuration state as ‘shared-san-2’

Protected VMs(app_vm7 to app_vm12)

Protected VMs powered on in Site B during the SRM

Test failover

Protected VMs(app_vm7 to app_vm12)

Protected VMs that will be recovered to Site B

Storage configuration during a SRM Test failover from Site A to Site B for datastore ‘shared-san-2’

Write Disabled(read only)

Read WriteEnabled


Status

Success

Errors

Waiting for Input

Recovery Only

Test Only

Success

Testing a Recovery Plan - continued


Recovery Plan Reports

Accessible complianceExportable recovery plan

Exportable recovery results

Maintained history


Failover Automation

Detect site failuresRaise alert when heartbeat lost

Initiate failoverUser confirmation of outageGranular failover initiation

Manage replication failoverBreak replicationMake replica visible to recovery hosts

Execute recovery processUse pre-programmed planProvide visibility into progress


Executing an Actual FailoverWARNING - Executing an actual failover with SRM will permanently alter virtual

machines and infrastructure of both the protected and recovery sites

Site A - Protected Site

Source LUN(shared-san-2)

Protected VMs(app_vm7 to app_vm12)All powered off by SRM

At start of SRM Recovery

Site B - Recovery Site

Target LUN(shared-san-2)

Write Disabled(read only)

Read Write Enabled

Protected VMs(app_vm7 to app_vm12)All powered on by SRM

during the SRM Recovery

Note: A Clone LUN is not used during an actual failover in SRM.

Storage configuration after running a Recovery in SRM (Actual Failover)from Site A to Site B

Data Replication is suspended


WARNING - Executing an actual failover with SRM will permanently alter virtual machines and infrastructure of both the protected and recovery sites

WARNING - Failback to the protected site is a not an automated process in SRM 1.0

Executing an Actual Failover - continued


SRM will automatically perform a re-signature on the Datastores in the Recovery Site that were replicated from the SRM Protected Site

LVM.EnableResignature=1With a re-signature - Datastore names will change to snapxxxx_datastorename, for example

snap-00000002-shared-san-1snap-00000002-shared-san-2

WARNING - The re-signature of the target datastore has implications during a failback (resync) of data back to the SRM Protected Site

Datastore Re-signature During Failover


Failback

Promote secondary site to primaryFor one or more VMs

Add VMs to DR profileProtect them at another site

Manual failoverShort downtime (minutes)Likely to be individual VMs/applications


Agenda



Site Recovery Manager Core Benefits

Expand disaster recovery protectionNow any workload in a VM can be protected with minimal incremental effort and cost

Reduce time to recoveryAs soon as disaster is declared, a single button kicks off recovery sequence for hundreds of VMs

Increase reliability of recoveryReplication of system state ensures a VM has all it needs to startup

Hardware independence eliminates failures due to different hardware

Easier testing based off of actual failover sequence allows more

frequent and more realistic tests


Summary Site Recovery Manager Leverages VMware Infrastructure to Make Disaster Recovery

RapidAutomate disaster recovery processEliminate complexities of traditional recovery

ReliableEnsure proper execution of recovery planEnable easier, more frequent tests

ManageableCentrally manage recovery plansMake plans dynamic to match environment

AffordableUtilize recovery site infrastructureReduce management costs

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