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Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager
Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction ....................................................................................... 7 Charitable Donation .............................................................................................. 8 Acknowledgement ................................................................................................ 8 About this Book .................................................................................................... 9 About you The Reader ........................................................................................... 9 About Hyperlinks ................................................................................................ 10 Disclaimer ......................................................................................................... 10 What’s New in SRM 4.0 ....................................................................................... 10 A Brief History of Life - before VMware SRM ........................................................... 12 What is not a DR Technology? .............................................................................. 13 What is VMware SRM? ......................................................................................... 15 What about File Level Consistency? ....................................................................... 16 Principles of Storage Management and Replication .................................................. 17 Storage Vendor Guides ........................................................................................ 22 Summary .......................................................................................................... 24 Chapter 2: Getting started with EMC Celerra Replicator .................................... 25 Creating an EMC Celerra iSCSI Target ................................................................... 28 Granting Access to ESX hosts to EMC Celerra iSCSI Target ...................................... 30 Creating a New File System ................................................................................. 33 Creating an iSCSI LUN ........................................................................................ 36 Configuring Celerra Replication ............................................................................. 39 Conclusion ......................................................................................................... 45 Chapter 3: Getting started with EMC Clariion MirrorView/S .............................. 47 Creating EMC LUN .............................................................................................. 49 Configure EMC MirrorView ................................................................................... 51 Creating a Snapshot for SRM Tests ....................................................................... 53 Creating Consistency Groups (Recommended) ....................................................... 55 Granting Access to ESX hosts to Clariion LUNs ....................................................... 55 Conclusion ......................................................................................................... 58 Chapter 4: Getting started with HP LeftHand Scheduled Remote Copy .............. 59 Some Frequently Asked Questions about HP LeftHand VSA ...................................... 60 Download and Upload the VSA ............................................................................. 61 Importing the HP Lefthand VSA ............................................................................ 62 Modifying the VSA’s Settings ................................................................................ 63 Licensed by Virtual MAC Address .......................................................................... 64 Primary Configuration of VSA Host ........................................................................ 65 Install Management Client ................................................................................... 66 Configure the VSA (Management Groups, Clusters & Volumes) ................................. 67 Licensing the VSA ............................................................................................... 72 Configuring VSA for Replication ............................................................................ 73 Monitoring your replication/snapshot .................................................................... 76 Adding ESX hosts & Allocating Volumes to Them .................................................... 78 Configuring the ESX Software iSCSI ...................................................................... 80 HP Lefthand - Create a Test Volume at the Recovery Site ........................................ 85 Shutting Down the VSA ....................................................................................... 90 Conclusion ......................................................................................................... 90 Chapter 5: Getting started with NetApp and SnapMirror ................................... 93 Provisioning NetApp storage for VMware ESX ......................................................... 95 Creating NetApp Volumes for NFS ......................................................................... 95 Modify the Export Properties ................................................................................ 99 Granting Access to ESX hosts to NetApp Volumes .................................................. 101 Creating NetApp Volumes for Fibre Channel and iSCSI ........................................... 102 Gaining Access to NetApp LUNs to ESX ................................................................. 107 Configure NetApp SnapMirror .............................................................................. 108 Introducing NetApp Rapid Clone Utility 3.0 and Virtual Storage Console ................... 114 Using the NetApp Virtual Storage Console ............................................................. 119 4 Conclusion ........................................................................................................ 125 Chapter 6: Installing VMware SRM .................................................................. 127 Architecture of VMware SRM ............................................................................... 128 VMware SRM Product Limitations and Gotchas ...................................................... 140 Licensing VMware SRM ....................................................................................... 142 Setting up the VMware SRM Database with Microsoft SQL 2005 ............................... 143 Installing VMware SRM Server ............................................................................. 152 Installing the vSphere Client SRM Plug-in ............................................................. 159 Failure to Connect to the SRM Server ................................................................... 160 Conclusion ........................................................................................................ 161 Chapter 7: Protection Site Configuration ......................................................... 163 Pairing the Protected and Recovery Site SRM together ........................................... 164 Configuring Array Managers – An Introduction ...................................................... 169 Configure Inventory Mappings ............................................................................. 193 Creating Protection Groups ................................................................................. 199 Failures to Protect a Virtual Machine .................................................................... 205 Conclusion ........................................................................................................ 207 Chapter 8: Recovery Site Configuration ........................................................... 209 Creating A Basic Full Site Recovery Plan ............................................................... 210 Testing Storage Configuration at the Recovery Site ................................................ 214 Overview: First Recovery Plan Test ...................................................................... 215 Practise: First Recovery Plan Test ........................................................................ 221 Controlling & Troubleshooting Recovery Plans ....................................................... 223 EMC Celerra and Testing Plans ............................................................................ 229 EMC Clariion and Testing Plans ............................................................................ 230 NetApp and Testing Plans ................................................................................... 231 HP Lefthand and Testing Plans ............................................................................ 232 Conclusion ........................................................................................................ 236 Chapter 9: Custom Recovery Plans .................................................................. 237 Configuring Shutdown of Protected Virtual Machines at the Protected Site ................ 239 Configuring Priority/Order for Recovery Virtual Machines ........................................ 242 Parallel Host Start-Up Order and Normal/Low ........................................................ 244 Adding Message Steps ....................................................................................... 244 Adding Command Steps ..................................................................................... 246 Adding Command Steps with PowerCLI ................................................................ 247 Adding Command Steps to Call Scripts with the VM ............................................... 250 Configure IP Address changes for Recovery Virtual Machines .................................. 251 Configure Bulk IP Address changes for Recovery Virtual Machine DR-IP-Exporter) ..... 256 Customized VM Mappings ................................................................................... 260 Managing Changes at the Protection Site .............................................................. 262 Managing Changes at the Recovery Site ............................................................... 268 Other Changes in the vSphere and SRM Environment ............................................. 268 Creating New VMs on New Networks and on New Storage....................................... 270 Storage VMotion and Protection Groups ................................................................ 275 Virtual Machines Stored on Multiple VMFS Datastores ............................................. 277 Virtual machines with Raw Device/Disk Mappings .................................................. 279 Multiple Protections Groups and Multiple Recovery Plans ........................................ 283 The Repair Array Manager’s Button ...................................................................... 286 Conclusion ........................................................................................................ 287 Chapter 10: Alarms, Exporting History and Access Control .............................. 289 vCenter “Linked Mode” and Site Recovery Manager ................................................ 290 Alarms Overview ............................................................................................... 292 Exporting & History ............................................................................................ 298 Access Control .................................................................................................. 301 Testing your Permissions .................................................................................... 307 Some Permission Limitations – Test & Run Plans ................................................... 308 VMware SRM Log Files........................................................................................ 310 5 Conclusions ...................................................................................................... 311 Chapter 11: Bi-Directional and Multi-Site Configurations ................................ 313 Configuring the Array Manager ............................................................................ 315 Configuring the Inventory Mappings ..................................................................... 316 Creating the Protection Group ............................................................................. 317 Creating the Recovery Plan ................................................................................. 317 Shared Site Configurations ................................................................................. 318 Decommissioning a Site ..................................................................................... 325 Conclusions ...................................................................................................... 325 Chapter 12: Failover and Failback ................................................................... 327 Considerations before Failover and Failback .......................................................... 329 Planned Failover – Protected Site is available ........................................................ 329 EMC Celerra and Running Plans ........................................................................... 332 EMC Clariion and Running Plans .......................................................................... 333 HP Lefthand and Running Plans ........................................................................... 335 NetApp and Running Plans .................................................................................. 335 Planned Failback – Protected Site is available ........................................................ 337 Clean-Up of the Planned Failback ......................................................................... 355 Unplanned Failover - Protected Site is DEAD ......................................................... 364 Planned Failback – Protected Site is BACK ............................................................ 367 Conclusions ...................................................................................................... 372 Chapter 13: Scripted Site Recovery ................................................................. 375 A Very Special Acknowledgement ........................................................................ 376 Part 1: Introduction - Automating VMware SRM ..................................................... 376 Part Two: Introduction – Recovery with Site Recovery Manager ............................... 380 Conclusions ...................................................................................................... 390 The End – Final Conclusions ............................................................................. 392