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The Complete, Hands-On Guide to Installing and Configuring VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0
Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0 is the complete, technical, hands-on guide to VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.0 installation and configuration for experienced VMware professionals.
VMware forum moderator and vExpert Mike Laverick fully explains SRM 5.0’s failover/failback procedures, walks readers through configuring storage replication with hardware from several leading suppliers, and shows how to efficiently implement fast, automated, centralized disaster recovery. Drawing on his extensive experience with SRM and vSphere, he identifies common pitfalls and errors, explains why they occur, and shows exactly how to fix them.
Fully up to date for SRM 5.0, this book delivers “in-the-trenches” technical knowledge you won’t find anywhere else, including expert guidance for utilizing SRM 5.0’s advanced new vSphere Replication (VR).
Coverage includes
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Site Recovery Manager
Chapter 2: Getting Started with Dell EqualLogic Replication
Chapter 3: Getting started with EMC Celerra Replicator
Chapter 4: Getting started with EMC CLARiiON MirrorView
Chapter 5: Getting Started with HP StorageWorks P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance with Remote Copy
Chapter 6: Getting Started with NetApp SnapMirror
Chapter 7: Installing VMware SRM
Chapter 8: Configuring vSphere Replication (Optional)
Chapter 9: Configuring the Protected Site
Chapter 10: Recovery Site Configuration
Chapter 11: Custom Recovery Plans
Chapter 12: Alarms, Exporting History and Access Control
Chapter 13: Bidirectional Relationships and Shared Site Configurations
Chapter 14: Failover and Failback
Chapter 15: Scripting Site Recovery
Chapter 16: Upgrading from SRM 4.1 to SRM 5.0
Index
FRINGEINDEPENEDENTREVIEW
Posted February 21, 2012
If you have been working with Vmware vSphere for some time? If you have, then this book is for you! Author Michael Gordon Laverick, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that is a complete guide to using SRM. Author Laverick, begins by providing a brief introduction to Site Recovery Manager and discusses some use cases. Then, the author guides you through the configuration of replication with Dell EqualLogic arrays, and covers the basic configuration of the ESXi iSCSI initiator. Next, he covers the configuration of replication with EMC Celerra arrays. The author also guides you through the configuration of replication with CLARiiON arrays. He continues by covering the configuration of replication with the HP P4000 VSA. Next, he guides you through the configuration of NetApp replication arrays, and covers configuration for FC, iSCSI and NFS. The author also covers the installation of Vmware Site Recovery Manager, and details post-configuration steps such as installing an array vendor’s Site Recovery Adapter software. He continues by detailing the steps required to configure vSphere Replication. Then, the author covers the initial setup of the Protected Site and deals with such steps as pairing the sites, inventory mappings, array manager configuration, and placeholder datastore configuration. Next, he covers the basic configuration of the Recovery Plan at the Recovery Site. The author also discusses how Recovery Plans can have very detailed customization designed around a business need. He continues by showing you how administrators can configure alarms and alerts to assist in the da-to-day maintenance of SRM. Then, the author shows you more complicated SRM relationships where SRM protects VMs at multiple sites. Next, he covers the real execution of A Recovery Plan, rather than merely a test. The author also covers what to do if Site Recovery Manager is not available. Finally, he shows you a high-level view of how to upgrade SRM 4.1 to SRM 5.0. This most excellent book flags what’s new in the SRM product. Perhaps more importantly, in the future, the author imagines using the technology that currently sits behind SRM being used to move virtual machines from an internal private cloud to an external public cloud—and from one cloud provider to another.
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The Complete, Hands-On Guide to Installing and Configuring VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0
Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0 is the complete, technical, hands-on guide to VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.0 installation and configuration for experienced VMware professionals.
VMware forum moderator and vExpert Mike Laverick fully explains SRM 5.0’s failover/failback procedures, walks readers through configuring storage ...