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Contents About this vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery User's Guide 5 1 The Disaster Recovery Service 7 Overview of the Disaster Recovery Service 8 Why Use Disaster Recovery in vCloud Air? 9 About Setting up the Disaster Recovery Service 10 Workflow for Using the Disaster Recovery Service 11 System Requirements and Compatibility 12 2 Managing Disaster Recovery in vCloud Air 13 Assign a User to the Roles for Disaster Recovery 14 About Networks for the Disaster Recovery Service 15 About Placeholders in vClo
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About this vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery User's Guide The vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery User's Guide provides information about vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery ® (formerly known as vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery) from VMware . This guide provides information about using the Disaster Recovery service to manage virtual machines replicated from your source site to the cloud as well as from the cloud back to your source site.
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The Disaster Recovery Service 1 vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery is a Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) offering intended to protect virtual workloads managed by VMware vSphere that are either deployed in a private cloud or data center. To implement and consume vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery, you require the following VMware products and services: n vSphere Replication vSphere Replication is a feature of the VMware vSphere platform.
VMware vCloud Air - Disaster Recovery User's Guide This chapter includes the following topics: n “Overview of the Disaster Recovery Service,” on page 8 n “Why Use Disaster Recovery in vCloud Air?,” on page 9 n “About Setting up the Disaster Recovery Service,” on page 10 n “Workflow for Using the Disaster Recovery Service,” on page 11 n “System Requirements and Compatibility,” on page 12 Overview of the Disaster Recovery Service The Disaster Recovery service enables site administrators to protect
Chapter 1 The Disaster Recovery Service You may buy the Disaster Recovery service in subscription term-lengths of 1 month, 3 months, 12 months, 24 months, up to 36 months. You can also buy and add resources ( 20GB vRAM, 10GHz vCPU and 1TB of storage) in bundles. The add-on options offered with the Disaster Recovery service are similar to the options provided with the vCloud Air core services. Figure 1‑2.
VMware vCloud Air - Disaster Recovery User's Guide n Affords organizations and IT operations groups of various sizes the opportunity to improve business resiliency and compliance standards based on cloud-scale economics. n Allows for improved recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) policy compliance while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).
Chapter 1 The Disaster Recovery Service Procedure 1 As a vSphere customer or vSphere and vCloud Air customer, contact your VMware sales representative to purchase a vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery subscription. NOTE Once a subscription to the vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery service is submitted and approved, management of subscription options, such as feature add-ons, will become available in My VMware.
VMware vCloud Air - Disaster Recovery User's Guide See “About Placeholders in vCloud Air,” on page 15 for information. 3 Using vSphere Replication or vCloud Air, test recovery for a virtual machine and cleanup the test after you run it. See “Test a Recovery,” on page 18 for information. 4 In the event that your source site becomes unavailable, log into vCloud Air and recover your virtual machines to vCloud Air. See “Recover a Virtual Machine,” on page 20 for information.
Managing Disaster Recovery in vCloud Air 2 When you subscribe to the Disaster Recovery service, you can use vCloud Air to monitor and manage the virtual machines you are replicating to the cloud. After setting up virtual machines for replication, use vCloud Air to monitor and manage the replication and recovery for those virtual machines; for example, testing recovery or performing a recovery from a placeholder virtual machine in vCloud Air in the event of a disruption at the source site.
VMware vCloud Air - Disaster Recovery User's Guide n “Test a Recovery,” on page 18 n “Clean up a Test Recovery,” on page 18 n “About Recovery to vCloud Air,” on page 19 n “Recover a Virtual Machine,” on page 20 n “Remove a Replication from vCloud Air,” on page 21 n “About Failback for Virtual Machines to the Source Site,” on page 22 Assign a User to the Roles for Disaster Recovery To use the Web UI for vCloud Air to manage the virtual machines you replicated to the cloud, you must have a user a
Chapter 2 Managing Disaster Recovery in vCloud Air About Networks for the Disaster Recovery Service When you subscribe to the Disaster Recovery service, VMware creates two default networks for the service —an isolated network and an external routed network. The gateway for the routed network has a public IP address on its outside interface so that the routed networkon the inside interface is accessible through the Intranet.
VMware vCloud Air - Disaster Recovery User's Guide Figure 2‑2. Placeholders in the Replication Tab Table 2‑1.
Chapter 2 Managing Disaster Recovery in vCloud Air Lease Times for Tests and Recoveries When a virtual machine powers on as a result of a test or recovery, its operation in vCloud Air is subject to the following runtime leases: n Virtual machines powered on during a disaster recovery test—7 business day lease n Virtual machines powered on after being recovered to the cloud—30 day lease To view the lease times for a test or recovered virtual machine in vCloud Air, go to the virtual data center enabled f
VMware vCloud Air - Disaster Recovery User's Guide For information about testing a recovery by using the vSphere Web Client at your source site, see Test Recovery to Cloud in vSphere Replication 6.0 for Disaster Recovery to Cloud for information. Test a Recovery To guarantee a recovery in the event of disruption at your source site, you should test a placeholder virtual machine to ensure its integrity is intact. Prerequisites n Verify that a test network was configured.
Chapter 2 Managing Disaster Recovery in vCloud Air 3 Click Cleanup. A confirmation dialog box appears. 4 Click Continue. Running a clean up after a test resets the test recovery for the virtual machine by performing these tasks: Powers off the test virtual machine. n n Replaces the test virtual machine with a placeholder, preserving the virtual machine identity and configuration information. n Cleans up replicated storage snapshots that the virtual machine used during testing.
VMware vCloud Air - Disaster Recovery User's Guide Figure 2‑5. Configure Replication - Set MPIT Assume you have set a 15 minutes (minimum) recovery point objective (RPO) and you start the replication at 9:00 a.m., which means data changes for that particular virtual machine are replicated every 15 minutes. Now in the event of a failover, you can pick a specific time to recover from. For example, if the on-premises data center has an issue and you need to failover at 11 a.m.
Chapter 2 Managing Disaster Recovery in vCloud Air Procedure 1 Click the Virtual Machine tab. The table of virtual machines appears. 2 Select the virtual machine that you want to recover. 3 Click Recovery. The confirmation dialog box appears. 4 Click Continue. Recovering the virtual machine has the following result: n In the Virtual Machine tab, the Recovery Status changes from Placeholder or Test Complete to Recovered. n Connects the virtual machine to the production network.
VMware vCloud Air - Disaster Recovery User's Guide About Failback for Virtual Machines to the Source Site Native failback of virtual machines that you have previously recovered in vCloud Air is available by using vSphere Replication. After successfully recovering your replicated virtual machines in vCloud Air, you can failback those virtual machines.
Index A P access, Disaster Recovery 14 permissions, Disaster Recovery 14 placeholder cleanup test 18 integrity test 18 overview 15 status 15 virtual machine settings for 13 planned migration, source site 20 prerequisites, Disaster Recovery 14 product compatibility 12 production network 15 C clean up results 18 test recovery 18 compatibility 12 D data seeding 8 Disaster Recovery default networks 15 features 8 login credentials 10 prerequisites 10, 14 related documentation 5 required VMware products 8 s
VMware vCloud Air - Disaster Recovery User's Guide T test network 15 overview 17 recovery 18 reset virtual machine after 18 schedule 17 successful 17 U usage metering 13 V vCloud Connector, tasks 7 vCloud Director, guest customization 17 virtual machine data after recovery 19 Disaster Recovery leases 17 failback to source site 22 power on 17, 20 recover 20 VMware Global Support Services 17 vSphere Connect to a cloud provider wizard 15 OVF Deployment wizard 10 test recovery 17 Web Client 10 vSphere Replic
