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This will show how features in Site Recovery Manager can be used to:
We will start off discussing NSX and network mapping, run a recovery plan in planned migration mode to utilize cross-vCenter vMotion, run it again in disaster recovery mode, then walk through a recovery plan test and conclude with utilizing a storage policy to protect a VM.
SRM NSX Integration
NSX supports creating Universal Logical Switches, which allow for the creation of layer-2 networks that span vCenter boundaries. This means that when utilizing Universal Logical Switches with NSX there will be a virtual port group at both the protected and recovery site that connect to the same layer-2 network
When virtual machines are connected to port groups that are backed by Universal Logical Switches, Site Recovery Manager will automatically recognize this and not require manual network mapping between the protected and recovery locations. Site Recovery Manager intelligently understands that it is logically the same network on both sites and thereby automatically links the protected and recovery networks.
To demonstrate this, note the lack of any network mappings within Site Recovery Manager and because of the use of NSX Universal Logical Switches, the lack of any recovery issues in the remainder of this lab.
Orchestrated cross-vCenter vMotion Running and Testing Recovery Plans
This section will run through different recovery plan workflows to see how SRM 6.5 interacts with stretched storage to provide enhanced availability. Start by running the ERP recovery plan in planned migration to observe the cross-site vMotion functionality.
Now that the ERP application is running and protected at the Secondary/New Jersey site it is important to run a test of the recovery plan prior to failing back to the Primary/New York site.
Now that it is complete we can view the Test VMs running at the recovery site which now is Primary/New York
Some time has passed and now the Secondary/New Jersey site suffers an outage requiring us to recover the ERP application at the Primary/New York site. When a recovery plan is run in disaster recovery mode it doesn’t utilize cross-vCenter vMotion, rather it recovers VMs similarly to how SRM always has. This provides orchestrated recovery to a multi-site stretched storage environment, something which was unavailable in prior versions of SRM.
Storage Policy Based Protection
Policy based protection allows for the protection of a VM simply by associating it with a policy and placing it onto storage that is in compliance with that policy. Follow these steps to protect the FIN-Web02 VM in the Finance Protection Group.
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