Over the last ten years, virtualization has evolved to become an industry best practice to reduce costs, improve availability, accelerate time to value and simplify management.People strive to find the perfect disaster recovery plan for it department. Below list of articles for disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan help you to understand detailed step by step procedure to install and configure VMware SRM. VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a disaster recovery and business continuity solution from the VMware,which automates the transfer of virtual machines to a local or remote recovery site.
VMware SRM works perfectly with the existing vSphere software and it operates as an extension of vCenter server. SRM automates the recovery or migration of virtual machines between protected site and a recovery site.This list of tutorials will help you to understand step by step procedure to implement your disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan using VMware Site Recovery Manager.
Disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan Tutorial
This tutorial’s targeted audience are system administrators, VMware administrators and storage administrators, who want to implement disaster recovery plan for IT department using VMware Site Recovery Manager along with HP Virtual Storage Array.
Disaster Recovery :
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 1- Overview and Architecture
This article will help you to understand the overview and Architecture of the VMware Site Recovery Manager. It also provides high level recommendations to implement your Disaster Recovery plan for your IT using SRM and SAN replication software.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 2 – VMware SRM 6.0 installation
This article will help you to understand various pre-requisites to install SRM and also detailed step by step procedure to install your favorite disaster recovery and business continuity solution
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 3 – Configuring SRM Site Pairing
This article will help you to understand the procedure to pair your primary protected site with your disaster recovery site using Site Pairing option in VMware SRM.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 4 – Installing Storage Replication Adapters (SRAs)
This article will help you to understand what is Site Replication Adapters (SRA) and how to install SRA to work with VMware SRM. Storage Replication Adapters (SRA) is a program provided by a storage array vendor that enables vCenter Site Recovery Manager to work with the vendors array.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 5 – Configuring SRM Array Manager
This article will help you to understand the procedure to configure SRM array manager. VMware site recovery manager uses this information to discover the storage array available to SRM host and the replicated LUNs for it.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 6 – Creating SRM Resource Mappings
This article will help you to understand the procedure to configure resource mappings between your primary protected site and disaster recovery site. This step is required because we use 2 different vCenter servers installed that are not linked by common data source.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 7 – Configuring SRM Folder Mapping
This article will help you to understand the procedure to configure folder mappings between your primary protected site and disaster recovery site. This step will help you for better management and planning by organizing the Virtual machines into the mapped folder after the Disaster Recovery plan is executed.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 8 – Configuring SRM Network Mapping
This article will help you to understand the procedure to configure Network mappings between your primary protected site and disaster recovery site. This is very important step to configure the proper network mapping between your Protected site and Disaster recovery site. This ensures that VMs that are powered on at the Recovery Site will be accessible across the network.Network mappings can only be related to Virtual machine port groups
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 9 – Configuring SRM Placeholder Datastores
This article will help you to understand the procedure to configure Placeholder datastore for your primary protected site and disaster recovery site. A placeholder datastore is used to store the placeholder virtual machines at the recovery site. A placeholder datastore reserves a place for protected virtual machines in the recovery sites inventory.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 10 – Creating SRM Protection Group
This article will help you to understand the procedure to create SRM Protection group. Site Recovery Manager Protection groups can be created to group virtual machines for protection. SRM protection groups will be different for array-based replicated virtual machines and vSphere replication replicated virtual machines
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 11 – Creating SRM Recovery Plans
This article help you to understand the procedure to create your Disaster Recovery Plan using VMware SRM. vCenter Site recovery manager recovery plan is a automated plan for recovering protected virtual machines to the recovery site. SRM recovery plan includes one or more protection groups. This is also called as disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 12 – Running SRM Test Recovery
This article will help you to understand how to test your disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan without disturbing the actual production workloads using the SRM test recovery option.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 13 – Cleaning up Test Recovery
This article will help you to understand the procedure to clean up your test recovery after executing your disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan.
SAN Replication using HP Store Virtual VSA:
HP StoreVirtual VSA transforms your server’s internal or direct-attached storage into a fully-featured shared storage array without the cost and complexity associated with dedicated storage. StoreVirtual VSA is a virtual storage appliance optimized for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments.It creates a virtual array within your application server and scales as storage needs evolve. The ability to use internal storage within your environment greatly increases storage utilization, and eliminates the costs and complexity associated with dedicated external storage.Its built-in high availability and disaster recovery features ensure business continuity for the entire virtual environment. It is free replication software from HP.
VMware SRM 6.0 Array Based Replication Part 1 – Deploying HP Store Virtual VSA
This article will help you to understand the procedure to deploy the HP store Virtual appliance in top of hypervisor. This article also talks about 2 different replication options available to use with VMware SRM. First one is storage array replication and second one is free replication software “vSphere replication” from VMware to leverage the virtual machine replication.
This article will help you to understand the procedure to install HP Store Virtual VSA Centralized Management Console (CMC) in windows server. The HP VSA centralized management console allows us to centrally manage VSA appliances and other tasks like adding hosts, presenting storage to host, configuring replication between VSA appliance, etc.
VMware SRM 6.0 Array Based Replication Part 3 – Configuring HP StoreVirtual VSA Management Group
This article will help you to understand the procedure to Configure Virtual Storage Array appliance and create VSA management group using HP VSA Centralized Management Console (CMC)
This article will help you to understand the procedure to add ESXi host to VSA management group and Preset Storage to the ESXi host and add them as a Datastore to store Virtual machine.
VMware SRM 6.0 Array Based Replication Part 5 – Configuring HP StoreVirtual VSA Replication
This article will help you to understand the procedure to configure the Storage replication between your Protected and Disaster recovery site using Free software HP storeVirtual VSA.
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