Session: BCO2410
43% of data center outages are due to power, 31% by IT hardware failure
A comprehensive portfolio for cost-effective IT resilience: Ranges from Oracle RAC, Microsoft MSCS, replication and backup
The hypervisor opens up new opportunities: Knows the needs of all apps in real time, sits directly in the I/O path, global view of underlying infrastructure, hardware agnostic
VMware Software defined storage has BC/DR services like data protection and data replication
Local application availability: vMotion, storage vMotion, fault tolerance, high availability, and app HA
Data protection: vSphere Replication, vSphere Data protection advanced
Site application availability: vCenter site recovery manager, vCloud Air disaster recovery
- array based replication for zero data loss, available through storage partners
- vSphere replication: RPO from 15 minutes to 24 hours
- vSphere Data protection advanced: One day minimum RPO and backup data replication
vSphere Data Protection (VDP)
- Agentless product
- Based on EMC Avamar
- end-to-end integration with vSphere
- Simplifies backup and recovery of VMs
- 4x more efficient through dedupe and 6x faster recovery
- Comes in two editions: VDP and VDP advanced. VDP is appropriate for 50 VMs; VDP advanced for 200 VMs
What’s new in VDP
- Improved in 5.8 is app-aware agents for SQL clusters and Exchange DAGs
- New in 5.8 are backup proxies and enhanced restore from replicated backups
- Configurable parallel backups (up to 24 VMs at a time)
- Replicate and restore anywhere
- Support for Linux LVM and EXT4
- Support up to 20 VDP appliances per vCenter
vSphere Replication
- Hyervisor based replication
- VM-centric and storage array agnostic
- Flexible RPO (15 minutes to 24 hours)
- Network efficient
Building Blocks for disaster recovery
- DR Orchestration
- Replication
- Backup and Recoery
- Compute
- Storage
Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
- Introduced in 2008
- 14,000 Customers
- 2.4 million VMs protected
- Centralized recovery plans for thousands of VMs
- non-disruptive recovery testing
- Automated DR workflows
- Integrated with the VMware product stack
- Lowers the cost of DR by 50%
- Eliminates complexity and risk of manual processes
- Enables predictable RTOs
- Provides policy driven DR control for any app
- 1-click DR
- Test to rest
- For disaster recovery, disaster avoidance, and planned migration
What’s new in SRM 5.8?
- 5x scale of the protection – up to 5,000 VMs
- 2x scale of recovery – to 2,000 VMs
- vSphere web client plug-in
vCloud Air Disaster Recovery
- Warm standby VM in the cloud
- 15 minutes to 24 hours RPO
- Terms are 1m, 12m, 24m, 36m subscriptions
