vmworld 2013: dr to the cloud with vmware site recovery manager and rackspace disaster recovery...
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VMworld 2013 Paul Croteau, Rackspace Bryan Evans, VMwareTRANSCRIPT
DR to The Cloud
with VMware Site Recovery Manager and
Rackspace Disaster Recovery Planning Services
Paul Croteau, Rackspace
Bryan Evans, VMware
BCO5170
#BCO5170
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Agenda
Simple and Reliable DR with vSphere and SRM
• SRM Simplifies and Automates the traditional Runbook Model for DR
SRM as a Service
• Thousands of Customers Already Rely on SRM
• DR to The Cloud with SRM is offered by an expanding list of Service Providers
Rackspace® Replication Manager & the Managed Hosting Advantage
• Identify and Understand the Problem
• Plan Accordingly
• Maintain Your Focus By Working With Partners
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Simple and Reliable DR with vSphere and SRM
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Challenges of Traditional Disaster Recovery
Expensive Complex
Recovery Plans
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Unreliable
Failovers
Apps
Hosts
Storage
Network
Software
Hosts
Storage
Facilities
>$10K per app
Failure to meet business requirements
Long RTOs – days to weeks
Too much time and resources consumed
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vSphere Provides the Best Foundation for Disaster Recovery
Flexible Infrastructure
Eliminate need for identical hardware across sites
Enable waterfalling of equipment to recovery site
Simple Application Protection
Entire system – including application, OS, and data – is stored as virtual machine files
Entire system can be protected with data protection tools
Cost-Efficient Infrastructure
Reduced hardware requirements at recovery site
Use recovery hardware to run low-priority apps
Encapsulation
Consolidation
Hardware
Independence
vSphere
vSphere vSphere
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Site Recovery Manager Complements vSphere for DR
Traditional DR VMware
Streamline planned migrations
and automated failback
Automated DR failover and non-
disruptive testing
Simple management of recovery
and migration plans
vSphere Replication
Encapsulation for simple recovery
of entire systems
Hardware independence at
failover site
Consolidation to reduce costs
vSphere
SRM
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SRM Simplifies Setup and Management of Recovery Plans
Weeks or months to set up
Error-prone
Quickly falls out of sync with apps and infrastructure changes
Simple recovery plan set up in minutes
Fewer steps means far less room for errors
Simple to keep in sync with changes
…to Simple Recovery Plans From Complex Runbooks…
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SRM Reduces Recovery Risk with Frequent Testing
During the testing gap, organizations can’t be sure that they can recover the current IT environment
A failover scenario may take days or weeks to complete, leaving the business at extreme risk
Lack of confidence
in DR process
Time
DR Test DR Test
TESTING GAP
Recovery
Risk
Traditional Disaster Recovery
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SRM Reduces Recovery Risk with Frequent Testing
SRM provides assurance that DR objectives will be met
Time
DR Test DR Test
TESTING GAP
Recovery
Risk
Traditional Disaster Recovery
Recovery
Risk
DR Test DR Test Time
Site Recovery Manager
Frequent
DR Testing
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SRM Provides Broad Choice of Replication Options
vSphere Replication
Simple, cost-efficient replication for Tier 2 applications and smaller sites
Storage-based Replication
High-performance replication for business-critical applications in larger sites
vCenter Server Site
Recovery Manager
vSphere
vCenter Server Site
Recovery Manager
vSphere
vSphere Replication
Storage-based replication
Site A (Primary) Site B (Recovery)
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Simplify failback process
Automate replication management
Eliminate need to set up new recovery plan
Streamline frequent bi-directional migarations
Automated Failback to Streamline Bi-Directional Migrations
Re-protect VMs from Site B to Site A
Reverse replication
Apply reverse resource mapping
Automate failover from Site B to Site A
Reverse original recovery plan
Restrictions
Does not apply if Site A has undergone major
changes / been rebuilt
Not available with vSphere Replication
Overview
Benefits
Automated Failback
Site B Site A
Reverse
Replication
Reverse original recovery plan
vSphere vSphere
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Planned Migrations For App Consistency & No Data Loss
Overview
Benefits
Two workflows can be applied to recovery plans:
DR failover
Planned migration
Planned migration ensures application
consistency and no data-loss during migration
Graceful shutdown of production VMs in
application consistent state
Data sync to complete replication of VMs
Recover fully replicated VMs
Better support for planned migrations
No loss of data during migration process
Recover ‘application-consistent’ VMs at
recovery site
Planned Migration
Site B Site A
Replication
1 Shut down production VMs
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Sync data, stop replication and present LUNs to vSphere
3 Recover app-consistent VMs
vSphere vSphere
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Automate DR Failover Processes
Overview
Benefits
Automatically detect site failures
Require user to manually initiate failover
Automate recovery process
Stop replication and present replicated LUNs to
vSphere
Execute user-defined recovery plan
Ensure fast and predictable failovers and
migrations
Consistently meet business requirements
Minimize risk of user errors
Site B Site A
Replication
1 Raise alert when heartbeat lost
2 User initiates failover
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Stop replication and
present LUNs to vSphere
4 Recover VMs
DR Failover
vSphere vSphere
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Testing and Executing Recovery Plans
Steps in
recovery plan Status and time
stamps
When to execute
User
confirmation
message
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SRM as a Service
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Thousands of Customers Already Rely on SRM
Introduced in Q2’ 2008 Over 1 Million VMs Protected
10,000+ customers
“If your organization is already taking advantage of virtualization,
then adding Site Recovery Manager to handle disaster recovery
is a no-brainer.”
― Jerry Wilkin
Senior Systems Administrator, Dayton Superior Corp
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vCenter Site Recovery Manager Ensures Simple, Reliable DR
Provide cost-efficient replication of
applications to failover site
Support for vSphere Replication
Broad support for storage-based
replication
Simplify management of recovery and
migration plans
Replace manual runbooks with
centralized recovery plans
From weeks to minutes to set up new
plan
Automate failover and migration
processes for reliable recovery
Enable frequent non-disruptive testing
Ensure fast, automated failover
Automate failback processes
Site Recovery Manager Complements vSphere to provide the simplest
and most reliable disaster protection and site migration for all applications
VMware vSphere
VMware
vCenter Server
Site Recovery
Manager
VMware
vCenter Server
Site Recovery
Manager
VMware vSphere
Site A (Primary) Site B (Recovery)
Servers Servers
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vCenter Site Recovery Manager Ensures Simple, Reliable DR
Provide cost-efficient replication of
applications to failover site
Support for vSphere Replication
Broad support for storage-based
replication
Simplify management of recovery and
migration plans
Replace manual runbooks with
centralized recovery plans
From weeks to minutes to set up new
plan
Automate failover and migration
processes for reliable recovery
Enable frequent non-disruptive testing
Ensure fast, automated failover
Automate failback processes
Site Recovery Manager Complements vSphere to provide the simplest
and most reliable disaster protection and site migration for all applications
VMware vSphere
VMware
vCenter Server
Site Recovery
Manager
VMware
vCenter Server
Site Recovery
Manager
VMware vSphere
Site A (Primary) Site B (Recovery)
Servers Servers
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DR to the Cloud With SRM Offered By Several VSPP Partners
Public
Cloud
Service Provider
DR to the Cloud services
currently offered by:
Rackspace
FusionStorm
Hosting.com
IIJ (Japan)
iLand
SunGard
Terremark
VeriStor
Providers offer variety of
pricing, packaging, service
levels and deployment
options
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Establish the Business Problem
IT focus should be on innovation, not Disaster Recovery
Do you have DR staff or expertise onsite?
Do you have the time or ability to design, implement, and test
recovery solutions that meet your business requirements?
Do you know your business requirements?
Do you know your cost of downtime?
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Business Impact Analysis
You own the DR process.
How do you prioritize?
What exactly are you
protecting?
• Business Operations
• Revenue
• Data
• Customers
• All of the above
Do you know your
cost of downtime?
Multi-Layer Business View
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The Numbers
The average cost of data center downtime across industries:
approximately $5,600 per minute
For a partial data center outage, averaging 59 minutes in length,
average costs were approximately $258,000
For total data center outages, which had an average recovery time
of 134 minutes, average hourly costs were approximately $680,000
93% of companies that lost their data for 10 days or more filed for
bankruptcy within one year of the disaster, and 50% filed for
bankruptcy immediately
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RTO vs RTA
RTO is the target when architecting initial recovery solution
RTA is the Recovery Time Actual at a single point in time
after deployment
RPO
RTO
RTA Recovery
Completed
OUTAGE
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Need to Understand Time Discrepancy Between RTO and RTA
Failover tests are critical and help understand the Recovery
Time Actual
SRM enables non-disruptive failover testing without impacting
production systems
HOT COLD WARM
RTO
RPO
Tier
• DNS Failover
• Array-based Replication
• Host-based Replication
• DB Replication (Transactional)
• DB Rep. (Log Shipping)
$$$ $$ $
0-24
2-6
0-24
4-24+
24-48+
1 2 3 4
0-2
• MBU (Disk)
• VM Replication
Price
• MBU (Tape)
• MBU (Offsite)
Elements of DR,
not an end-to-end solution
Missing process, policies and
procedures • GSLB
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Downtime Calculator
www.rackspace.com/disaster-recovery-planning/
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Rackspace DR Planning Services
DR specialists
VMware Certified
Professionals
EMC & NetApp certified
engineers
Designed and deployed
thousands of DR-related
environments just like
yours
US & UK DCs available
for SRM
Sample DR Reference Architecture
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Rackspace Replication Manager Description
Powered by VMware®
vCenter™ Site Recovery
Manager™
Relies on Rackspace
Array-based Replication
EMC RecoverPoint or NetApp
SnapMirror
Rackspace Replication Manager
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Rackspace Assists with Testing and Provides Reports
Rackspace includes failover test every three months to ensure you
meet your DR compliance requirements
• Companies don’t test their failover plan enough.
• Some replication services charge per test: expensive
• The failover/back process can be risky in production
• Risk dictates extensive planning around every test
We offer Recovery Time SLA based on failover test every
three months
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Large VM Environments Are Dynamic and Change Constantly
Change management in source and target sites - challenging
Manual run books vs SRM automation
Weeks or months to set up
Error-prone
Quickly falls out of sync with apps and infrastructure changes
Simple recovery plan set up in minutes
Fewer steps means far less room for errors
Simple to keep in sync with changes
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Resiliency Solutions Portfolio
SRM is linchpin, dedicated storage, >1hr replication
Database Replication and DNS failover
All backed by Fanatical Support
RPA
SRM
vSphere-based
Array-based
Prod DR
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Key Takeaways
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Key Takeaways
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, in conjunction with
vSphere, enables simple and reliable DR at much lower cost as
compared to traditional DR
Site Recovery Manager is expanding options for single site
customers by working with Service Providers to build out SRM as a
Service offerings
DR is owned by the business but can be facilitated through
outsourced relationships. Know your cost of downtime, prioritize
your apps, then select the right tools and partners
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Other VMware Activities Related to This Session
HOL:
HOL-SDC-1305
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery In Action
Group Discussions:
BCO1003-GD
Disaster Recovery and Replication with Ken Werneburg
BCO5170
THANK YOU
DR to The Cloud
with VMware Site Recovery Manager and
Rackspace Disaster Recovery Planning Services
Paul Croteau, Rackspace
Bryan Evans, VMware
BCO5170
#BCO5170