Session BCO2629
Software defined storage and availability
- Bringing the efficient operational model of virtualization to storage
- Common policy based model
- VM centric data services
- Abstraction and pooling of infrastructure
vCenter Site Recovery Manager
- Industry-leading disaster recovery automation solution for vSphere environments
- Uses array-based replication
- Use cases include DR, disaster avoidance, planned migration
- Recovery workflows: Failover automation, non-disruptive failover testing, planned migration, failback automation
What’s new in SRM 5.8?
vCAC Integration
- vCAC workflow support – Self-service policy-based DR protection for Apps and other workflows
- VCAC management across both sites. Integration with vCO plugin for SRM
- New PowerCLI APIs exposed
- Automated protection mapping according to pre-defined tiers via vCAC
- DR control delivered as a service to app tenants via vCAC
- VCO plug-in for SRM offers many workflows like creating protection groups and add VMs. Find protection groups by datastores, etc.
Scalability
- 5,000 protected VMs, vice 1,500 in 5.5
- 2,000 VMs concurrent recovery, vice 1,000 in 5.5
- Many performance across the board – UP to 75% faster
- IP customization is a huge time sink, so if you avoid that then recovery will be even faster
Ease of Use
- Built-in vPostgress database, or can still use external DB
- Integrated into the vSphere web client
IP Subnet Mapping
- Can use the dr-ip-customizer – Old method is still there
- Can now use rules to define customization as part of the network mapping, to preserve parts of the IP address while mapping to the new subnet
- Based on subnet mask
VSAN + vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manage: VSAN is compatible with vSphere replication
vSphere Replication (VR)
- Included in vSphere essentials plus and higher
- Protects up to 500 VMs
- Replication happens at the host level
- Easy virtual appliance deployment
- Quick recovery for individual VMs
- Replication engine for SRM
- Replicate workloads to vCenter Serer and vCloud Air
- VR components: vSphere replication management server (VRMS), vSphere Replication Server (VRS), vSphere Replication Agent (VRA)
- Supports VSS quiescing – Only use if you need to
What’s new in 5.8
- Replicate to the cloud – vCloud Air
- vSphere Replication reporting
- vSphere replication calculator – Allows you to solve for network bandwidth, how many VMs you can protect, and other features
- Capacity planning appliance fling
