User guide

Before you begin
Optionally, before embarking on replication, calculate the following estimates:
1. The time duration required for replication to complete
2. The percentage of your bandwidth that VSR consumes during ongoing
replication.
Use the IBM Bandwidth & Replication requirement estimation tool to make these
calculations:
See IBM Synchronization and Bandwidth Estimator.
http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/en/it-services/vsr-bandwidth-
estimator/
Important: Throttling network bandwidth in the VSR environment might result in
degraded RPO.
Procedure
1. Log in to the portal as in step 2 on page 4.
2. Select each of your servers one at a time, and identify which disks you would
like to replicate.
3. Save your changes.
4. Depending on your needs, click one of the following menu options:
v Protect > Protect Servers
v Protect > Protect Dependent Servers
v Protect > Protect Windows Clusters
v Add Volumes to an Existing Server
5. When you are finished adding servers, click the button labeled All Done, To
Stage Three. VSR reports successful completion on the succeeding screen.
Results
This completes replication of a server at the Shared Resource Virtual Machine
service level.
What to do next
Optionally, to upgrade replication of a server already protected at the Shared
Resource Virtual Machine service level to the Reserved Resource Virtual Machine
level:
1. Select the server intended for upgrade in the server tree view.
2. Select Create Reserved Resource Server.
3. VSR asks you to continue the process when you next log in to the VSR portal,
after the secondary replication for the server is complete.
Failover
Failover involves the following activities:
Procedure
1. Log in to the portal as in step 2 on page 4.
2. Click Recover. Place check marks in the boxes next to the servers you intend to
fail over; then click Begin Recovery.
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