Introduction to VMware Site Recovery Manager

Vadim Shvarts

vshvarts@vmware.com

Agenda

VMware Infrastructure and Disaster Recovery Today

VMware Availability Spectrum

Disaster Recovery Pain Points

Benefits of VMware Infrastructure for Disaster Recovery

VMware Site Recovery Manager

Product Objectives

Product Capabilities

Use Cases

Implementation Details

Future Plans

Advantages of Virtual Disaster Recovery

Virtual machines are portable

Virtual hardware can be automatically configured

Test and failover can be automated (minimizes human error)

The need for idle hardware is reduced

Costs are lowered, and the quality of service is raised

VMware Availability Products And Features

Avoid Planned OutagesQuick Recovery From Unplanned Outages

Component

Server

Storage

Data

Site

VMware HAVMotion, DRS + Maintenance Mode

NIC Teaming, Multipathing

Encapsulation, VCBStorage VMotion

Encapsulation, boot from shared storage, instant reprovisioning, HW independence, resource pools, snapshots, VLANs

Encapsulation, VCB

VMware Site Recovery Manager

Disaster Recovery Pain Points

Lack of a reliable disaster recovery plan

27-30% of business have no disaster recovery plan (VMworld, Imation)

Inability to meet RTO and RPO requirements with current plan

Business needs and/or regulatory needs

Need to improve RTO from days to minutes or hours

Need to improve RPO from 24 hours to 1 hour or less

Expense related to hardware at remote site

Idle hardware at recovery site (capital cost)

Need to maintain system and application images at secondary site (operational cost)

Unable to instantly repurpose machines at the secondary site (RTO impact)

• Hardware Independence• Instant

Repurposing

Failover

Cost Reliability

Planning And Acquisition

Testing

• Encapsulation• Boot From Shared Storage• DRS And Resource Pools

•Snapshots•VLANs

BusinessConcern

AssociatedDR Workflow

SupportingVI3 PlatformFeatures

VMware Infrastructure 3 for Disaster Recovery Today

Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

~60% of customers using virtualization for DR#1 reason for virtualization behind consolidation/resource utilization

Customers

Awards“Best Disaster Recovery Product of 2006” (TechTarget)

VMware SRM

Product Objectives

Automate DR failover?

Propagate VCMS info to the DR

site?

Setup recoveryVM networking?

Implement DR planchange control?

Enable regular, non-disruptive

testing?

Manage VI3 and storage

replication?

Manage DR VM resources

and QOS?

Increase DR plan coverage?

Improve recovery success rate?

Satisfy compliance

officers?

Reduce time to recovery?

Get assurance DR goals being met?

Business Needs

Technical Needs

Without breaking the bank or introducing paralyzing complexity for IT staff

In a server, OS, and application independent manner

Site Recovery Manager Core Capabilities

Centralized management for DR

Create, test, update and execute recovery plans from a single point of management

Tight integration with VirtualCenter

Disaster recovery automation

Build recovery process in advance

Automate testing of recovery plans

Automate execution of recovery process

Simplified setup and integration

Allocate 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

VMware Infrastructure

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

VMware Infrastructure

Virtual Machines

VirtualCenterSite

Recovery Manager

Storage

Servers

VMware Infrastructure

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

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

Failover Automation

Detect site failuresRaise alert when heartbeat lost

Initiate failoverUser confirmation of outage

Granular failover initiation

Manage replication failoverBreak replication

Make replica visible to recovery hosts

Execute recovery processUse pre-programmed plan

Provide visibility into progress

Testing

Replication ManagementSnapshot replicated LUNs before test

Delete 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 sequence

Extra breakpoints and callouts around the test bubble

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

VM

FS

2

Recovery Plan: Big Red ButtonProtection Groups:

Section: High Priority

Section: Medium Priority

Section: Lowest Priority

Use Case #1: Recovering From Complete Site Failure

VM

FS

1V

MF

S3

Exchange1

Exchange2

SQL1

SQL2

SAP

AD

IIS

LUN Group 2

LUN Group 1

LUN Group 3

Protection Group 1

1. AD2. SQL13. SQL2

1. SAP2. Exchange13. Exchange2

1. IIS

Protection Group 3

Protection Group 2

Recovery Plan: Array DiesProtection Groups:

Section: High Priority

Section: Medium Priority

Section: Lowest Priority

Use Case #2: Recovering From Array Failure

VM

FS

1

Exchange1

Exchange2

SQL1

SQL2

SAP

AD

IIS

1. AD

1. IIS

Protection Group 3

VM

FS

2V

MF

S3

Future Plans

Better warnings on misconfiguration

Automated failback workflow

More expansive SDK

Support for more DR topologies

Features for smaller businesses

Application monitoring

Ties with VMware HA

Site Recovery Manager Interest and Support

Storage Partners

Customers

• Customers designing for Site Recovery Manager now

• Over 2300 attendees at VMworld sessions

• Large VMware customer:

• Site Recovery Manager will justify expanding and accelerating virtualization of their datacenter

Summary

VI3 is an award winning DR product today

Best RTO, cost and reliability of any platform today

Site Recovery Manager will augment VMware’s DR capabilities

Adds workflow on top of VMware’s DR ready platform

Ties in with existing DR products from storage OEMs

Technically

Automates setup, failover, and test of DR

Business benefits

Creates a low-RTO, low-cost, highly reliable DR plan and workflow that is repeatable, testable and auditable

Questions?