Architecting Disaster Recovery

Solutions by leveraging Lenovo

ThinkAgile
Bhavin Shah – Technical Marketing Manager, SDI

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Bhavin Shah
Technical Product Marketing Manager
Software Defined Infrastructure
Lenovo US

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Agenda

• Disaster Recovery
• DR Solutions for ThinkAgile VX
• DR Solutions for ThinkAgile HX
• DR Solutions for ThinkAgile MX
• Demo

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Disaster Recovery

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Disaster
Recovery (DR)
is about
preparing for
and recovering
from
a disaster!

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Disaster Recovery has become critical for every business

>100k
per day

Causes of
Est. cost of downtime
DR events for 65% of enterprises
Ransomware

Power Outage

Human Error

Hardware Failure

Natural Disasters

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Existing Tools are Insufficient

No plan is not Recovery from Manual runbooks

an option backups and scripting
takes too long are error prone

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What you want in your DR solution

Low Total Fast Easy to Highly

Cost Recovery Use Reliable

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DR Solutions for ThinkAgile VX

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Scenarios

On-Prem On-Prem On-Prem

On-Demand

On-Prem Cloud Cloud

Production Site: On-Prem Cluster Production Site: On-Prem Cluster Production Site: On-Prem Cluster
DR Site: On-Prem Cluster DR Site: Cloud Cluster DR Site: Cloud Cluster
(On-Demand)

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On-Prem to On-Prem
VMware Site Recovery Manager

• Automation software to Protected Site Recovery Site

orchestrate application recovery SRM SRM
Streamlined DR automation
and mobility across sites

• Centralized recovery plans for

thousands of VMs vSphere Replication vSphere Replication
Hypervisor-based VM replication

• Non-disruptive recovery testing HCX HCX

WAN-optimized secure VM replication

• Automated orchestration Array-based replication

workflows (failover, migration,
failback)
vVols vVols vVols

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VMware Site Recovery (DRaaS) for VMware Cloud on AWS
Combines the power of SRM/VR with the elasticity and operational simplicity of the cloud

Protected Site Recovery Site Disaster Recovery as a Service

SRM SRM Site
VMware • Accelerate time to protection
Streamlined DR automation
Recovery (DRaaS) • Cloud economics with on-demand
pricing
• Integrated into VMware Cloud console
• Post-failover cluster scaling with
Elastic DRS
• Inter-region protection
vSphere Replication vSphere Replication
Hypervisor-based VM replication

Multiple network connectivity options

Ready-to-go elastic cloud

infrastructure for DR events
VMware Cloud on AWS

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Automated Workflows Accelerate Recovery and Testing

Non-disruptive Testing Automated Failover

SRM
• Automated testing in • Single-click initiation
isolated network
• Emphasizes fastest possible
• Increases predictability of recovery SRM recovery after outage
time objectives (RTO)
VMware

Automated Failback Planned Migrations

SRM
• Re-protect from Site B to A using • Ensures zero data loss and
Replication VMware
original recovery plan app consistency
• Streamlines bi-directional • Enables disaster avoidance and
migrations Data Center maintenance

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Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service Use Cases

Replace existing DR site/solution for Complement existing DR Establish new DR for on-prem apps DR for VMC apps to other VMC
on-prem apps site/solution for on-prem apps (no DR solution today) region or back to on-prem

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Protection Groups

Protection Group 1
Group VMs as desired into
Web App
Protection Groups

VMs in a Protection Group

will be recovered as a unit
Protection Group 2
Email One VM can only belong to
one Protection Group

Protection Group 3
SharePoint

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Recovery Plans

Recovery Plan 1: Web App

Protection Group 1 Protection Group 1 – Web App

Web App

Recovery Plan 2: Email

Protection Group 2: Email

Protection Group 2
Email
Recovery Plan 3: Whole Site

Protection Group 1: Web App

Protection Group 3
Protection Group 2: Email
SharePoint
Protection Group 3: SharePoint

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Running a Recovery Plan
Planned Migration or Disaster Recovery

Protected Recovery
Site Site 1. Synchronize replication

2. Power off VMs in order

Prod Replica
VM VM 3. Synchronize replication again

4. Prepare recovery VMs

Prod Replica 5. Power off non-critical VMs
VM VM
at Recovery Site

6. Customize IP addresses
Prod Replica (if required)
VM VM
7. Power on VMs in order

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Runbook Automation: Priorities and Dependencies

Priority Priority Priority Priority Priority

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5

Master Database Database App Server 1 Apache Desktop

Exchange Apache Desktop

Dependency

Mail Sync Desktop

App Server 2 Desktop

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VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery: On-Demand DRaaS
On-demand disaster recovery, delivered as an easy-to-use SaaS solution

VMware Cloud on AWS

Live Mount On-Demand Failover Target
SDDC Clusters

Cloud-based Services Instant

Power-On

SaaS Scale-out
Orchestrator File System

Production Site

DRaaS
Connector Delta-based
Failback

VMFS / vSAN / vVols

Steady-State Operations
Activated for tests, failovers, failbacks
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VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is very easy to use

Operationally Simple SaaS Zero-Touch

consistent Experience Day-2 Operations
Same networking, same tools, same Deploy, protect & recover with a few Automatic over the air upgrades of
runbooks, no workload format clicks in modern UI integrated into connector appliance in protected site
conversion VMware Cloud Automatic, seamless cloud service
upgrades
Self-healing cloud components

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VMware Site Recovery
Demo

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DR Solutions for ThinkAgile HX

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Scenarios

DR-as-a-Service
Primary Site Secondary Site
(Xi Cloud)

• One-click failover,
Integrated failback and testing
Live VMs
1-Click Disaster • Automated orchestration
Recovery A-SYNC of recovery plans
NEAR-SYNC Offline VMs
METRO

Single Management UI

• One-click data protection

On-Demand & archival
Disaster Xi Leap • Use industry-leading
Recovery solutions

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A-Sync, Near-Sync and Metro Availability

Metro Near
Async
/ Sync Sync
DR
DR DR

Recovery Point Objective: 0 mins
Recovery Time Objective: 0 mins
ESXi or Hyper-V: Protection Domain
(PD) based approach
AHV: SyncRep (Leap)
Recovery Point Objective: 15 mins Recovery Point Objective: 60 mins
Advanced Orchestration with Leap Advanced Orchestration with Leap
supported for ESXi and AHV supported for ESXi and AHV

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Xi Leap
Cloud DR Service

• Eliminates the need for a dedicated

DR Site

• Managed centrally through Prism

• Flexible Subscription plans

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Protection Policies

• Define Recovery Clusters

• Define RPO

• Define Failure Handling

• Leverage Categories for Auto-Protection

• Define VMs and Volume Groups to be protected

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Recovery Plans

• Add VMs and Volume Groups to

be recovered

• Define Boot-Order of VMs in

Stages

• Add Delays between stages

• Manage In-Guest script execution

for recovery

• Define network mapping for

production and test failovers

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Static IP Mappings

• Define Virtual Network

or Port Groups for
Production and Test

• Public IP Assignment
– Static

– Dynamic

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Xi Leap
Natively Integrated Cloud DR

• One Click Failover and

Failback

• Zero Click Recovery

Plan testing

• Planned and Unplanned

DR

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Xi Leap DR Demo

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DR Solutions for ThinkAgile MX

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Native Disaster Recovery with stretch clustering

• Span an Azure Stack HCI cluster across two rooms, two buildings, or two cities

• Sync or Async storage replication, optional encryption, site-local resiliency

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Microsoft DR solutions built on Azure
Breadth and depth solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery

Azure Backup Service

Azure Site Recovery (ASR)

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Safeguard your applications
On-prem to Cloud with Azure Site Recovery

Key Features
– Automated VM protection and replication
Microsoft Azure
Site Recovery
– Remote health monitoring

– Customizable recovery plans Orchestration

and replication

– Integration with available investments System Windows

Admin
Center Center

– No-impact recovery plan testing

– Orchestrated recovery of tiered applications

– Support for heterogeneous environments Primary Windows

site Server

– Use Azure as your disaster recovery site

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