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September 29th, 2015 13:00
Recoverpoint for VMs and VMware stretched cluster
Hello,
I am looking for some information on a RP4VM installation with a VMware stretched cluster.
We have 2 data centers with each 4 ESX Hosts and a VNX system running.
But we don´t have 2 ESX cluster or 2 vCenter server because of the stretched cluster configuration.
So when I install RP4VM, as far as I understood I can only do local replication, right?
So my question is, how can I use the disaster recovery feature which is described in RP4VM remote replication?
I can´t find any information about this, only the following:
So what does it mean if my datacenter 1 crashes and the vCenter server is running there?
I am not the VMware expert but responsilbe for the RP4VM installation.
Thankfull for each help!
Druehl1
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September 30th, 2015 06:00
There are 2 VNX5400 which are not mirrored. The only LUN which we are setting up for mirrorview is the one with vCenter server on it in the moment,
Idan
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September 30th, 2015 06:00
Hi there,
Correct, you can do local replication.
Is this a stretched HA cluster with stretched/distributed storage (vMSC) as well or are the two arrays non-mirrored ?
Regards,
Idan
Idan
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October 1st, 2015 03:00
As discussed over email, you can setup the vRPAs on site-2 (with the appropriate DRS affinity rules) and vCenter on site-2. A proper sizing exercise should be performed to make sure there is an sufficient bandwidth between the vRPAs and the ESXs housing the protected VMs on site-1. The local replicas should be configured on ESXs at site-2.
Another options are linked mode or register another vCenter on the same RP4VM cluster although these two options would require splitting the current HA cluster or adding at least 1 new one.
Hope that helps,
Idan Kentor
RecoverPoint Corporate Systems Engineering
idan.kentor@emc.com