Implementing Dell PowerFlex SRA with VMware Live Site Recovery

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  Introduction
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  Solution overview
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  Audience
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  Terminology
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  Revision history
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  We value your feedback

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  PowerFlex overview
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  PowerFlex family overview
  • PowerFlex software components
  • PowerFlex
  • PowerFlex Manager
  • PowerFlex File Services
  • PowerFlex CSI/CSM
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  PowerFlex deployment architecture
  • Independent architecture
  • Hyperconverged architecture
  • Mixed architecture
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  PowerFlex consumption options
  • PowerFlex rack
  • PowerFlex appliance
  • PowerFlex Custom Nodes
  • Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS

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  Solution components
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  PowerFlex SRA
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  PowerFlex replication
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  VMware vSphere and SRM

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  Environment and system requirements
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  Prerequisites
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  Solution architecture
  • Logical architectures
  • Peered systems
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  Replication Consistency Group
  • Steps to add RCG in PowerFlex 3
  • Steps to add RCG in PowerFlex 4

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  Installing PowerFlex SRA
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  Installation
  • Configuring certificates for the Photon operating system (optional)

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  Dell PowerFlex SRA Upgrade
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  Repository tags
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  Upgrade

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  Configuring the PowerFlex SRA
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  Array Manager configuration
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  Certificate management

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  Configuring VMware SRM protection groups and recovery plans
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  Configure mappings
  • Resource mapping
  • Placeholder datastores
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  Protection groups
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  Recovery plan
  • Steps to create a protection group and recovery plan

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  Advanced settings
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  Logging
  • Modifying logging levels with SRM
  • Export logs
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  Configuring advanced VMware SRM options

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  Test Failover
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  Test failover workflow in VMware SRM
  • Requirements
  • Test
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  Test Failover in PowerFlex UI
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  Cleanup

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  Recovery
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  Planned migration

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  Reprotection
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  Reprotect after planned migration
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  Reprotect after a temporary failure
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  Reprotect after a failover due to unrecoverable failure

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  Failback

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  Conclusion

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  References

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  Appendix: Known issues
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  Journal capacity
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  Pairs in failover