Specifications

3 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems
8.1! REQUIREMENTS AND ASSUMPTIONS ................................................................................................... 26!
8.2! EXECUTING THE RECOVERY PLAN ....................................................................................................... 27!
9! RESYNC AFTER RECOVERY ................................................................................................ 29!
9.1! REQUIREMENTS AND ASSUMPTIONS ................................................................................................... 29!
9.2! RESYNCING: PRIMARY STORAGE RECOVERED ................................................................................. 30!
9.3! RESYNCING: PRIMARY STORAGE LOST ............................................................................................... 33!
9.4! REESTABLISHING PRIMARY-TO-DR REPLICATION ............................................................................. 34!
10! BEST PRACTICES .................................................................................................................. 34!
11! KNOWN BEHAVIORS ............................................................................................................. 35!
12! REFERENCE MATERIALS ..................................................................................................... 37!
APPENDIX A: VMS WITH NONREPLICATED TRANSIENT DATA ............................................. 39!
PROTECTING VMS ON ESX HOSTS WITH NONREPLICATED SWAPFILES ...................................................... 39!
PROTECTING VMS WITH NONREPLICATED WINDOWS PAGE FILES ............................................................... 41!
APPENDIX B: NON-QUIESCED SMVI SNAPSHOT RECOVERY ................................................ 45!
NON-QUIESCED SMVI SNAPSHOT RECOVERY CONFIGURATION RULES ...................................................... 45!
USING THE NON-QUIESCED SMVI SNAPSHOT RECOVER FEATURE ............................................................... 45!
1 INTRODUCTION
This document is a detailed, in-depth discussion around how to implement VMware® vCenter Site Recovery
Manager (SRM) with NetApp FAS/V-Series storage systems. After reading this document the reader will be
able to install and configure SRM and understand how to run a disaster recovery (DR) plan or DR test. In
addition, the reader will have a conceptual understanding of what is required in a true DR scenario, which is
much broader than just failing over the virtual infrastructure and storage environment.
1.1 INTENDED AUDIENCE
This document is intended for anyone who wants to install/use SRM in a NetApp storage environment. This
document assumes that the user has experience with both NetApp and VMware products, specifically
SnapMirror® and VMware vCenter Server. In addition, the reader should have knowledge of DR solutions
and the workflow required in a DR scenario.
2 OVERVIEW OF A DISASTER RECOVERY SOLUTION
To architect a DR solution, you should keep the following factors in mind:
• Recovery time objective (RTO): RTO refers to how quickly a business can recover from the disaster, or
specifically how long does it take to execute the recovery process, making business services available
again.
• Recovery point objective (RPO): RPO refers to how far back in time the data in the environment will be
once it has been made available.
• Scalability and adaptability in a growing environment.
The ideal solution will have both a low RPO (minutes) and RTO (minutes to hours). One factor that is often
overlooked in a DR solution is the ability to test the DR solution in an efficient manner. In physical
environments, DR testing can take many hours or even days and require that replication between sites be
stopped while testing is performed.