5.8
Table Of Contents
- vCloud Suite Architecture Overview and Use Cases
- Contents
- About this book
- Introduction to vCloud Suite
- Architecture Overview
- Conceptual Design of a vCloud Suite Environment
- vCloud Suite Components in the Management Cluster
- Software-Defined Data Center Core Infrastructure
- Delivering an Infrastructure Service
- Delivering Platform as a Service
- Deploying vCloud Suite
- Install vCloud Suite Components
- Update vCloud Suite Components
- External Dependencies for Deploying vCloud Suite
- System Requirements of vCloud Suite Components
- Security Considerations
- Licensing
- vCloud Suite Licensing Model
- Activating vCloud Suite Components in the vSphere Web Client
- Activating vCloud Suite Components in the vSphere Client
- Add the vCloud Suite License by Using the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vSphere in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vCenter Operations Management Suite in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vCloud Networking and Security in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License Key to vCenter Site Recovery Manager
- Activating vCloud Suite Components by Using Their Own Licensing Interfaces
- Monitoring License Usage for vCloud Suite
- vCloud Suite Use Cases
- Index
vCloud Suite Use Cases 4
Scenarios in this chapter instruct you how to achieve realistic user goals by using vCloud Suite.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Disaster Recovery to Cloud,” on page 51
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“Infrastructure Provisioning,” on page 57
Disaster Recovery to Cloud
As a system administrator, you can configure cloud failover for virtual machines, so that you can guarantee
that important workloads keep running even when your on-site data center experiences problems. You can
combine the VM replication functionality provided by the vSphere Replication virtual appliance with the
VMware vCloud Air service to achieve business continuity goals without the need for a second data center
or additional equipment .
In your on-premise data center, the vSphere Replication virtual appliance lets you select the virtual
machines that you want to replicate to a remote site over the Internet. The vCloud Air service can serve as a
remote site for your virtual machines, ensuring that failover happens in a predictable and verifiable manner.
When the protected virtual machines go offline at the primary site, you can power on their copies in the
cloud.
Disaster Recovery to Cloud subscriptions do not include service integration with shared and dedicated
provisioning in vCloud Air.
The following VMware products are used in the scenario:
Table 4‑1. vCloud Suite Components Required for Disaster Recovery to Cloud
vCloud Suite component Description
ESXi 5.5 Update 2 The VMware hypervisor that lets you run a virtualized
environment.
vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2 Provides management capabilities in a browser-based
interface, as well as integration points for other vCloud
Suite components.
vSphere Replication 5.8 vSphere Replication is an extension to vCenter Server that
provides hypervisor-based virtual machine replication and
recovery.
vCloud Suite components that enable you to perform recovery to cloud can coexist with other solutions of
compatible version. See “List of vCloud Suite Components,” on page 7.
NOTE You cannot use vSphere Replication to protect virtual machines that are protected by using Site
Recovery Manager.
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