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Table of ContentsLab Overview - HOL-HBD-1684 - VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery...........................2

Introduction to VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery ............................................3Lab Guidance .......................................................................................................... 8vCloud Air Student Check-in ................................................................................... 9

Module 1 - Failover and Failback (30 Mins) ..................................................................... 121. Tour of vCould Air Disaster Recovery................................................................. 132. Create a Virtual Machine to test Disaster Recovery and Replication.................183. Connect to your target DR site.......................................................................... 294. Start VM replication and verify in vCloud Air. .................................................... 385. Review a test failover and perform a Planned migration. .................................526. Check vCloud Air to see your VM Recovered and Powered on. .........................597. Reverse Replications ......................................................................................... 618. Reports & Alarms .............................................................................................. 66

Module 2 - vRealize Orchestrator (15 Mins) .................................................................... 681. View the vRealize Orchestrator configuration web interface.............................692. Access vRealize Orchestrator from the web client ............................................723. Navigate the vRealize Orchestrator workflow creation wizard ..........................75

Module 3: Technical Preview of VMware Site Recovery Manager Air (15 mins) ...............801. Introduction to Site Recovery Manager Air........................................................ 812. Site Recovery Manager Air ................................................................................ 833. Conclusion......................................................................................................... 84

VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery Lab Conclusion .................................................. 85VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery .................................................................. 86

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Lab Overview - HOL-HBD-1684 - VMwarevCloud Air Disaster

Recovery

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Introduction to VMware vCloud AirDisaster RecoveryVMware vCloud Air® Disaster Recovery is a simple disaster-recovery-as-a-service(DRaaS) solution for organizations with limited or no disaster recovery solution in place.It provides operational consistency, stability and support for a primary data center inthe event of a failure, outage, disaster or any other cause of downtime.

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VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery Overview

Built on vSphere®, and delivered by vCloud Air, Disaster Recovery provides the samereliability, security and support that customers recognize and trust today from VMware.This service helps customers fulfill their need to implement or supplement theirorganization’s continuity plans, while recognizing their constraints around budget, timeand resources. Disaster Recovery enables organizations to leverage the same tools, skillset and platform investment in vSphere, to provide resiliency for business criticalinformation and assurance against operational disruption. With a cloud-based disasterrecovery solution, customers benefit from lower price points, flexible contract terms andthe same trusted support across their VMware cloud services.

vCloud Air Disaster Recovery is a simple and secure asynchronous replication basedsolution for failover and failback recovery of vSphere environments. It is a subscriptionbased offering with term lengths that vary from 1, 3, 12, 24 and 36 months. The serviceincludes features such as recovery point objective settings as low as 15 minutes, up to24 hours, on a per VM basis, and multiple point in time recovery snapshots. Customerscan perform an unlimited quantity of test failovers during their subscription term length,and for an actual failover, customers have a run time lease of 30 days. If needed, theservice provides an offline data transfer option for customers with large on premisesenvironment to use to initially seed their DR instance on vCloud Air.

Customers purchase an initial DR instance with vCloud Air that consists of:

• 10GHz vCPU and 20GB vRAM, warm reservation of compute• 1TB of Standard Storage• 2 Public IP addresses• 10 Mbps bandwidth• Unlimited number of test failovers for up to 7 days per test• 30 days failover run time• Production support

If the customer needs to grow their vCloud Air Disaster Recovery environment, add-onoptions are available across all resources, to add on as needed to support the protectionof their on premises data center. The vCloud Air platform security and compliancecertifications are applicable across all offerings within the portfolio, which includes DR.

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Built-in Encryption of Data in Flight

Encryption of replication traffic (in-flight) is provided between the endpoints in vCloudAir Disaster Recovery.

Disaster Recovery Scale Out

You can now configure and manage a maximum of 1000 simultaneous incoming (fromvCenter to vCloud Air - Disaster Recovery) virtual machine replications per VDC.

vSphere Replication is a feature of the VMware vSphere platform. vSphere Replicationcopies a virtual machine to another location, within or between clusters, and makes thatcopy available for recovery through the VMware vSphere Web Client or through theorchestration of a full disaster recovery product such as VMware vCenter Site RecoveryManager.

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vSphere Replication is distributed as an OVF virtual appliance. You can deploy thevSphere Replication appliance by using the standard vSphere OVF Deployment wizard.

Benefits

Using the Disaster Recovery service to replicate workloads from a source site to vCloudAir provides the following benefits:

• Introduces major efficiency gains over traditional business continuity and disasterrecovery (BC/DR) practices.

• Affords organizations and IT operations groups of various sizes the opportunity toimprove business resiliency and compliance standards based on cloud-scaleeconomics.

• Allows for improved recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective(RTO) policy compliance while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).

• Introduces alternatives for migrating production applications to the cloud withreduced downtime and limited need for offline data transfers (ODT).

• Provides subscription-based Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) for vSpherecustomers and also provides support for different vSphere versions.

• Fully integrated vCenter Web Client• Simple and easy to use management platform• Provide cost-effective DR for branch offices and remote offices.

vCloud Air Disaster Recovery Co-exists with SRM

In addition, the Site Recovery Manager (SRM) platform can coexist with the vCloud Air –Disaster Recovery service, which provides the ability to protect Tier 1 or Tier 2workloads with SAN-based replication. For Tier 3 workloads that do not have a critical

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RPO, you can protect those using vCloud Air by leveraging the same vSphere Replicationappliances - replicating VMs out to vCloud Air Disaster Recovery.

vCloud Air Disaster Recovery is available today from all vCloud Air data center locationswhich include:

• US-Virginia• US-New Jersey• US-Texas• US-Nevada• US-California• Europe-UK• Europe-Germany• Japan West• Australia

For more detailed information on vCloud Air Disaster Recovery, please go tohttps://vcloud.vmware.com to access data sheets, customer use cases, pricingcalculator, tutorial series and recorded demos, blog postings and more.

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https://vcloud.vmware.com

Lab GuidanceIn this lab you will be guided through using vCloud Air Disaster Recovery as a Service.You will access a vSphere environment that provides you a vCenter and ESXi hosts

which will act as your on-prem environment. In that site you will find the followinginfrastructure:

• 2 vSphere 6.0 ESXi hosts• 1 vCenter 6.0 Server appliance• 1 vCenter Replication 6.0 appliance• 1 vRealize Orchestrator 6.0 appliance

From this environment you will connect to a live account within the Disaster RecoveryService. You will be replicating and failing over a new VM to a vCloud Air. You will beginby obtaining a vCloud Air account and then authenticating to a target VDC in vCloud Air.You will perform a Planned Migration and see how to begin a reverse migration back to

the primary environment.

The lab will also show you how to get started with vRealize Orchestrator anddemonstrate SRM Air.

The lab consists of the following modules:

Module 1 - VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery Configuration and Failover operations (30 min)Module 2 - vSphere Orchestrator (15 min)Module 3 - Technical Preview of VMware Site Recovery Manager Air (15 mins)Conclusion (5 min)

This lab manual can be downloaded from the Hands-on Labs Document site found here:

http://docs.hol.pub/catalog

This lab may be available in other languages. To set your language preference and havea localized manual deployed with your lab, you may utilize this document to help guideyou through the process:

http://docs.hol.vmware.com/announcements/nee-default-language.pdf

Please feel free to ask questions and enjoy the experience!

Lab Captains: Brad Schmerbeck, Ryan Wilson, & Chris Willingham

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http://docs.hol.pub/catalog

http://docs.hol.vmware.com/announcements/nee-default-language.pdf

vCloud Air Student Check-inAs you will be using a live vCloud Air account for this lab you first need a username andpassword for login. This will be an account specific to this lab. You cannot use an exitingvCloud Air login. The password for this account will be reset after you complete the labor the time expires.

1. Locate your vCloud Air account

1. Open up the Chrome web browser from the desktop.2. The home page will be http://checkin.vcahol.com Note: http, not https.3. Enter your email address and click Search.4. The username is your login account and StudentID for this lab. Highlight and

Ctrl+C or Command+C to copy. You will need this later.5. Click the link to set a new password. You can only use this password reset link

once. The token will expire after first use.

Only email addresses with an Active vCloud Air Hands-on-lab will be shown.

Notice Cloud provider address, Organization Name and Target. This is important later inthe lab when you will connect your vCenter to this DR Target.

You will return later this to Check-In site to cut-and-paste this information.

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2. Set new password

Set a new password for the student account following guidelines

Click Continue

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3. Login to vCloud Air

Click Go to Sign in page

Enter your assigned username and password you set.

Click Login

Please note: This password will be reset after exiting this lab.

4. Let the learning begin

You now have access to vCloud Air until this lab has been completed or expires.

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Module 1 - Failover andFailback (30 Mins)

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1. Tour of vCould Air DisasterRecovery.Here we will take a quick look at the vCloud Air Disaster Recovery UI.

After Login

This is the initial Screen. We will be connecting to a Disaster Recovery instance.

1. Hover over the "Disaster Recovery to the Cloud" tile

2. Select one of the Service IDs to open "Disaster Recovery to the Cloud"

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Select DR Target Region

During Student Check-In you were provided a Target datacenter. Select this from thedrop down.

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Resource Usage

1. Select Resource Usage

This page will show you current CPU, Memory, Storage, Windows OS licenses and PublicIP address usage. As this is a new instance these numbers will be 0.

This is a DR target being shared with other Hands-on-labs DR users. You could see anynumber of VMs replicated here.

Please do not modify any existing VMs on this page as it may impact anotherstudent.

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Replication Status

Click Replication Status to see what Virtual machines are currently being replicated.

1. From here you can see Replication Status2. Last time replication was completed3. How long last replication took to complete4. Amount of data sent in last replication5. Current RPO (Recovery Point Objective)

This page also provides the DR target URL and unique Organization Name which is usedfor the on-prem replication configuration.

Gateways

Click Gateways to see what current Gateways are configured.

Gateways are virtual appliances dedicated to your Virtual Data Center (VDC1). Theymanage firewall rules, NATing, routing, VPN IPSEC and load balancing network features.The gateway will have a single public IP address but you can assign multiple public IPs

and create L2 networks to be isolated or attached to the gateway for inbound/outboundinternet or MPLS access.

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Networks

Click Networks to review current Networks that are configured.

Three (3) networks have been already created in this VDC. They represent networks thatyour VMs will attach to on a planned or test failover. You can bring your own private IPaddress space to the service and create networks as needed.

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2. Create a Virtual Machine to testDisaster Recovery and Replication.Here, we will create a Virtual Machine to demonstrate Disaster Recovery.

Open and login to the vSphere Web Client

Please select the tab for vSphere Web Client. If the tab is not present, please open anew tab and select the "vSphere Web Client" from the bookmarks bar.

Select the box for "Use Windows session authentication", then select "Login".

Navigate to Home and click VMs and Templates

In the Web Client:

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1. Click on Home.

2. Click on VMs and Templates

Click on Datacenter Site A to create a New VM

1. Click on Datacenter.

2. Click the Actions Dropdown Arrow.

3. Navigate to New Virtual Machine > New Virtual Machine...

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Create a new virtual machine

1. Click Next.

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Name your VM

1. Name your Virtual Machine as your Student ID. In this example "Student101"

2. Click Next.

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Navigate to an ESX Host

1. Navigate to your ESX host.

2. Click Next.

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Select Storage

1. Select available storage.

2. Click Next.

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Select Hardware Version 10

For this Lab, we need to select ESXi 5.5 and later to utilize Hardware Version 10.

1. Select ESXi 5.5 and later. DO NOT SELECT THE DEFAULT 'ESXi 6.0 OR LATER',OTHERWISE REPLICATION WILL FAIL!

2. Click Next.

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Select an Operating System

Choose an Operating System. In this example, we chose Red Hat Enterprise 6 (32 bit).

1. Select Guest OS Family.

2. Select Guest OS Version.

3. Click Next.

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Create a minimum sized VM shell for demonstrationpurposes.

We will create a very small Virtual Machine shell for lab replication.

1. select the minimum 512 MB RAM.

2. Set the Hard Disk to 1 GB.

3. Click Next.

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Verify and Click Finish

Review your configuration and Click Finish.

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Ensure VM is created

DO NOT Power On the Virtual Machine yet. Only need to confirm the VM has beencreated

1. Select VMs and Templates2. Select VM just created3. Keep the VM Powered Off for now.

For Lab Purposes we are going to replicate and restore a Virtual Machine shell, there willbe no Operating System installed in the guest.

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3. Connect to your target DR siteIn this section, we will verify the vSphere Replication Appliance is enabled and thenconnect to a target DR site to set up Replication and Disaster Recovery Services.

Navigate to Home in the Web Client

1. Click the Home icon in the Web Client.2. Select vSphere Replication

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Click on vSphere Replication, Home Tab, Click Manage

Verify that the vSphere Replication Appliance is Enabled (OK) and ready for replication.The status may show as 'Loading' for a few seconds, this is normal.

(Note: If you see the error shown here you can disregard, it will resolve and minimize onits own.)

Click on Manage

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Connect to DR Target Site

Manage will take you directly to "Target Sites".

1. Select the icon with green plus sign - "Connect to a cloud provider to configurereplications".

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Copy Settings from Student Check-In Page

1. Return to the tab on the browser that you used for Student Check-In2. Copy (Ctrl+C or Command+C) the Cloud Provider Address and be ready to

paste into the next step. You will return here to copy Organization Name

Paste Connect Settings from Student Check-In

1. Paste (Ctrl+V or Command+V) the Cloud provider address taken from theStudent Check-In page.

2. Repeat for Organization Name3. User Name will be your student email address (e.g [email protected])

and password you set at check-in.4. Click Next

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If Authentication fails after clicking Next double check you have copy & pasted thecorrect information and provided the correct password.

The screenshot provided is for example purposes only. Your entries will be different.

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Select VDC1

Select VDC1 and click Finish

This will connect the vSphere Replication Appliance to a Virtual Data Center (VCD) thatwill soon contain your replicated VMs. In this lab we only connect to one target but it'spossible to have many different DR targets. At this time a VM can only be replicated to asingle target but you could have many different VMs each going to separate targets.

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Connect Target Networks

1. Click the Refresh icon a few times until you see the VDC1 appear. This may takeup to 1 minute.

2. Select the VDC1 target3. Then select the Blue Globe icon "Configure target networks for the VDC"

You will not see the target networks icon unless you have selected VDC1

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Select Target Networks

1. Select "DR Production Network"2. Select "DR Test Network #1"3. Select Finish

These are networks pre-created in vCloud Air that upon failover your VMs will use. Youwill notice you can have a different network used for Planned Recovery v.s. TestRecovery.

When performing a test recovery the VMs will start on the Test Network specified here.

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Target Site Ready

Click the Refresh icon

Once the status changes from Missing networks to Connected you are ready toproceed

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4. Start VM replication and verify invCloud Air.Locate VM to Replicate

1. One Click "Virtual Machines" on the left side Navigator2. The VMs will appears under the Navigator

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Select your VM for Replication

1. Right Click your VM2. All vSphere Replication Actions3. Select Configure Replication...

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Select Replicate to a Cloud Provider, Click next

1. Select Replicate to a cloud provider.

2. Click Next.

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Select your connected VDC

1. Select the connected VDC1

2. Click Next.

(Note: If you see the error shown here you can disregard, it will resolve and minimize onits own.)

Leave the Standard storage policy.

1. Leave Default Standard Storage Policy.

2. Click Next.

For each new replication that you configure, an initial full synchronization operation isperformed. During this operation, vSphere Replication copies the whole data from thesource virtual machine to a placeholder vApp on the target site.

If the source virtual machine is too big, or the bandwidth of your network connection tothe cloud is too low, the initial full sync might take a long time. Therefore, you mightchoose to copy the source virtual machine to the target site by using removable media,or other means of data transfer. Then you can configure a replication and use the virtualmachine copy on the target site as a replication seed. When a replication is configuredto use a seed vApp, vSphere Replication does not copy the whole source virtual machine

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to the target site. Instead, it copies to the seed vApp only the different blocks betweenthe source virtual machine and the seed.

Leave Default Replication Options.

Review the Default Replication Options.

1. Click Next.

vSphere Replication guarantees crash consistency amongst all the disks that belong to avirtual machine. If you use quiescing, you might obtain a higher level of crashconsistency amongst the disks that belong to a virtual machine. The available quiescingtypes are determined by the virtual machine's operating system. For information onGuest OS quiescing, see this kb: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2041909

Compressing the replication data that is transferred through the network saves networkbandwidth and might help reduce the amount of buffer memory used on the vSphereReplication server. However, compressing and decompressing data requires more CPUresources on both the source site and the server that manages the target datastore.

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http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2041909

Leave Default Recovery Options

Review Default Recovery Settings.

Click Next.

When you configure replication, you set a recovery point objective (RPO) to determinethe maximum data loss that you can tolerate. For example, an RPO of 1 hour seeks toensure that a virtual machine loses the data for no more than 1 hour during therecovery. For smaller RPO values, less data is lost in a recovery, but more networkbandwidth is consumed keeping the replica up to date.

The available RPO range is from 15 minutes to 24 hours.

To save multiple replication instances that can be converted to snapshots of the sourcevirtual machine during recovery, select Enable in the Point in time instances pane, andadjust the number of instances to keep.

NOTE You can keep up to 24 instances for a virtual machine. This means that if youconfigure vSphere Replication to keep 6 replication instances per day, the maximumnumber of days you can set is 4 days.

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Click Finish

1. Click Finish to begin Replication to vCloud Air.

Note the Warning message. The VM will not begin replication until it is Powered On.

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Monitor Replication Progress

1. Select Monitor2. vSphere Replication3. Outgoing Replications4. Select Refresh icon to see Status changing from "Configuring" to "Not Active"

"Not Active" means the VM needs to be Powered On before replication begins

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Power On VM

1. Power On VM2. Click Refresh to see Initial Full Sync starting

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Full Sync Completed

Another Refresh and the Status changes to "OK"

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Possible Hardware Version 11 Error

If you Selected Hardware version 11 (vSphere 6) during VM creation, you will run intothis message. You will need to go back and recreate a VM with Hardware v10.

If you selected Hardware v10, you will not see this Error and can proceed.

To Downgrade Hardware Version: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1028019 (Easiest at thispoint to delete VM and go back to recreate your VM with Hardware v10).

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http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1028019

Open vCloud Air, Log in.

Once Complete in the Web Client, Go back to vCloud Air.

1. Click vCloud Air boomark in browser.2. Enter using your Student ID username and Password3. Click Sign In.

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Click on Disaster Recovery to the Cloud.

Select the Disaster Recovery to the Cloud tile

See Replication in Progress in vCloud Air.

1. Select your target data center (e.g US Virginia 112)2. Notice your VM being replicated into the VDC

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Verify Success of Replication.

1. Click on Replication Status tab

2. Verify Replication status of Success.

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5. Review a test failover and perform aPlanned migration.We will review test failover options and perform a planned migration to the vCloud Airenvironment.

Review a Test recovery.

Back in the vSphere Web Client:

1. Navigate back to Monitor2. vSphere Replication3. Highlight VM being replicated4. Select Green Arrow - Run test recovery

Test recoveries allow you to verify that source data is replicated correctly on the targetsite. When you initiate a replication task to cloud, Disaster Recovery to Cloud creates aplaceholder virtual machine on the target virtual data center. When you run a testrecovery, the placeholder virtual machine is reconfigured and connected to the selectedtest network so that you can log in and verify the replication progress.

Review Options for a Test Recovery.

Review the test recovery options. Notice that you can Synchronize recent changes oryou can use a point in time Sync Point.

1. Click Next.

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Synchronize recent changes: vSphere Replication runs a synchronization task before itconfigures the placeholder virtual machine on the target site for testing.

Use a point in time instance: vSphere Replication configures the placeholder virtualmachine for testing and uses the data that is copied on the target site at the point intime that you select from the list .

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Review the selections but cancel the test

After reviewing the test options, click Cancel. We will perform a Planned migration.

1. Click Cancel.

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Begin a Planned Recovery from vCloud Air

Navigate back to your vCloud Air login and Diaster Recovery web page

1. Select Virtual Machines2. Click the checkbox next to your virtual machine that matches your Student ID3. Select Red Arrow - Recovery

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Recovery

• Select Yes to Begin Planned Recovery• Select OK for the Recovery Point provided

Failover Started

At this point the failover has started. The VM will go from warm standby to a runningmachine.

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Failover Completed

The VM has completed a failover.

The Status now shows VM is Powered-On

Available Actions

1. Click the checkbox on a running VM2. Select Actions for a list of what can now be done

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vSphere Web Client Recovery Status

Navigate back to the vSphere Web Client

1. Select Monitor2. vSphere Replication3. Click Refresh icon

The replication status changes to Recovered, and the source virtual machine is nolonger being replicated to the target site.

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6. Check vCloud Air to see your VMRecovered and Powered on.Once the Planned migration is completed, we will log back into vCloud Air to see theresults.

Log back in to vCloud Air (Optional step in case yourprevious session times out).

1. Open vCloud Air in a new Tab

2. Enter your Student Credentials

3. Click Sign In.

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Open Disaster Recovery to the Cloud (Optional step incase your previous session times out).

1. Open Disaster Recovery to the Cloud and select Service ID.

See that the VM shows Recovered and is Powered on.

1. View that your Virtual Machine has been Recovered.

2. View that your Virtual Machine is Powered On.

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7. Reverse ReplicationsYou can use vSphere Replication to reverse a recovered outgoing replication and startcopying data from the cloud to your local site.

Go back to the Web Client

Reverse Replication can be started one of two ways - 1) Click Reverse Replication Icon or2) Configure Incoming Replications

1) When you select the Reverse replication icon, you can only use the originalreplication settings. You cannot change the datastore location, RPO, Point In Time (PIT)policy, and so on.

2) If your local site was recovered from a major breakdown and you need to restore it, oryou cannot configure a reverse replication, you can configure a new replication fromcloud to synchronize data from cloud to your local site.

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Power-off Student VM

Right click the running Student VM and select Power Off

(Note: You will receive the error shown if you do not Power Off the VM before configuringReverse Replication)

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Reverse Replication

Select the Reverse Replication Icon

1. Click the VM to be replicated after it has been Recovered

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2. Click the Reverse Replication Icon

Validation

vSphere Replication validates the source and target virtual machine, and the ReverseReplication dialog box opens.

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Check Reverse Replication Dialog

Select Cancel

The source virtual machine on the local site is unregistered from the inventory andbecomes inaccessible until you recover the replication.

The reversed replication is removed from the list of outgoing replications and appears inthe list of incoming replications

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8. Reports & AlarmsReporting

Reports are available via the vSphere Web Client to show transferred bytes, RPOviolations and relocated VM count

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Alarm Definitions

1. Select the vSphere Replication appliance or replicated VMs2. Manage3. Alarm Definitions

Depending on the inventory object selected different alarm definitions becomeavailable.

From this point you can create actions based on trigged events such a RPO violations ormigration failed messages.

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Module 2 - vRealizeOrchestrator (15 Mins)

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1. View the vRealize Orchestratorconfiguration web interfaceOpen vRealize Orchestrator in a new link

Open Chrome, open a New Tab, and use the vRealize Orchestrator link as shown.

Login to vRealize Orchestrator

Login here using the username/pasword combination: vmware/VMware1!

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Check the Authentication configuration

Once you have logged in, click on the Authentication section in the left pane.

Use Test Login tab to re-establish communication

Then click on the Test Login tab...

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Confirm vRealize Orchestrator is communicating withvCenter

Notice how the Authentication and Startup Options status indicators change from red togreen. The indicates that vRO is communicating with vCenter. You can now close theChrome browser tab with the vRO Configuration web interface.

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2. Access vRealize Orchestrator fromthe web client

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In the vSphere Web Client, click on the Home icon if necessary, and then open upvRealize Orchestrator by clicking on the vRealize Orchestrator plugin icon as shown.Click on Orchestrator Servers in the left menu pane, and then select the vRealizeOrchestrator server as shown

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Click on the Actions pulldown menu, Select Schedule a Workflow, and then click Approveto allow token delegation.

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Now we will navigate through the available vRealizeOrchestrator workflows

Expand the listed vRO Server by clicking the arrow to its left, and then expand theLibrary. Click on vSphere Replication to view the available workflows. You will not be ableto complete the workflow scheduling within this lab, but you can see the differentvSphere Replication workflow options. Click Cancel and then Home to got back to thevSphere Web Client home page, and close out the vRealize Orchestrator Configurationtab in Chrome.

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Module 3: TechnicalPreview of VMware Site

Recovery Manager Air (15mins)

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1. Introduction to Site RecoveryManager AirVMware® Site Recovery Manager Air™ is a software-as-a-service offering from VMware,which brings the management and automation benefits of Site Recovery Manager™ toVMware vCloud® Air™. Site Recovery Manager Air is fully integrated with vCloud AirDisaster Recovery™ to provide self-service protection and centralized recovery plans fororchestrated migration, failover, and fail-back between on-premises data centers andvCloud Air.

Site Recovery Manager Air shares many of the same features and benefits as othersoftware-as-a-service offerings. Initial costs are typically much lower as organizations donot have to maintain another site for disaster recovery. The service provider managesupgrades to the application. Site Recovery Manager Air failovers can be initiated fromalmost any device and location with an Internet connection, which is especiallybeneficial in many disaster recovery scenarios.

Site Recovery Manager Air works in conjunction with VMware vSphere Replication™ toenable compatibility with virtually any type of storage supported by VMware vSphere®,protection of individual virtual machines, and recovery point objectives as low as 15minutes.

Recovery plan tests can be performed as often as needed and at any time withoutaffecting production workloads. Frequent testing prevents recovery plans frombecoming outdated and improves reliability.

Multiple recovery plans can be configured to migrate individual applications and entiresites providing finer control over what virtual machines are failed over and failed back.This also enables flexible testing schedules. For example, one application ownerrequires quarterly disaster recovery testing while another application owner must testonce per month. This is easily accomplished with Site Recovery Manager Air.

Site Recovery Manager Air Key Features

• Failover and fail-back between on-premises data centers and vCloud Air• Support for a wide variety of vSphere storage solutions including VMware Virtual

SAN™• Protection for virtually any workload regardless of operating system and

application• Centralized recovery plans with predefined virtual machine startup sequences• Workflows for planned migrations and disaster recovery• Per-virtual machine recovery point objective (RPO) configuration from 15 minutes

to 24 hours• Automated IP address customization• Non-disruptive recovery plan testing

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• Intuitive, web-based user interface

History reports to satisfy auditing and regulatory requirements

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2. Site Recovery Manager AirDue to the nature of the Hands on labs, it's not possible to show the preview SiteRecovery Manager Air live. Therefore we have created an offline demo, that you canwalk thru, and see the features.

Click here to view an interactive demo of Site Recovery Manager Air. The demo will openin a new browser tab or window. When you have completed the offline demo, simplyclick the "Return to the Lab" link the top right-hand corner of the browser.

Be aware, that the lab continues to run, in the background. If it takes too long tocomplete the offline demo, the lab may go into standby mode, and you have to resumeit after completing the module.

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3. ConclusionRemember that this module was a technical preview of VMware Site Recovery ManagerAir.

VMware Site Recovery Manager Air a software-as-a-service offering from VMware, whichbrings the management and automation benefits of Site Recovery Manager to VMwarevCloud Air via a fully integrated with vCloud Air Disaster Recovery to provide self-serviceprotection and centralized recovery plans for orchestrated migration, failover, and fail-back between on-premises data centers and vCloud Air.

The key take aways from this module that are provided by Site Recovery Manager Air:

• Failover and fail-back between on-premises data centers and vCloud Air• Support for a wide variety of vSphere storage solutions including VMware Virtual

SAN• Protection for virtually any workload regardless of operating system and

application• Centralized recovery plans with predefined virtual machine startup sequences• Workflows for planned migrations and disaster recovery• Per-virtual machine recovery point objective (RPO) configuration from 15 minutes

to 24 hours• Automated IP address customization• Non-disruptive recovery plan testing• Intuitive, web-based user interface• History reports to satisfy auditing and regulatory requirements

NOTE:

This environment contains product features that are currently under development. Theoverview of this new technology represents no commitment from VMware to deliverthese features in any generally available product. Features are subject to change, andmust not be included in contracts, purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind.Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery. Pricing and packagingfor any new technologies or features discussed or presented have not been determined.

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Conclusion

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VMware vCloud Air Disaster RecoveryThanks for participating in Hands On Labs for Disaster Recovery ot the Cloud! What wehave seen in this lab is the powerful and simple capability of the VMware vCloud AirDisaster Recovery. It has the ability augment any organization's existing DR strategy byproviding an efficient and simple way to leverage vSphere Replication technology to testand plan for temporary events that require failover.

If you would like to read more, please visit our webpage at http://vcloud.vmware.com

Also, don't forget to check out http://labs.hol.vmware.com

Thanks!

Your Lab Captains,

Brad, Chris, and Ryan

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ConclusionThank you for participating in the VMware Hands-on Labs. Be sure to visithttp://hol.vmware.com/ to continue your lab experience online.

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